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...event of the week-end was the Navy Relief Dance on Saturday, which turned out much better than anyone had anticipated. Even the weather co-operated, while the hall's decorations evoked the praise of visiting WAVES and other feminine guests, and the faculty was looking very chipper in whites...

Author: By J. D. Wilson, | Title: Ward Room Topics | 7/23/1943 | See Source »

...piling up such pleasant memories for the dull days in the future. But why think of proving more interesting? Monday mornings at Briggs are on the way to becoming the most interesting and enlightening silence is broken when the "after-break the "tall" and "short" stories of the week-end! These breaks in the west really furnish the spice for our daily menu of work and it is amazing how difficult it sometimes becomes on Sunday nights to do simple arithmetic after a strenuous week-end...

Author: By R. MARJORY Willoughby, | Title: Greeting A Ripple | 7/16/1943 | See Source »

...expect to receive the five new assignments respectively on July 19, July 31, and August 7, 16, and 26. Of course this schedule is subject to addition, insertion, multiplication and more reports, but not subtraction. So clean up your typewriter, file down your nails...and cancel your week-end dates (Oh yeah?). The Middies have four more reports to go definitely, probably five, as follows: Foreign Resources, Procurement, Management, and Finance, due respectively July 29, August 9, 18, and 26. Carry...

Author: By M. J. Roth, | Title: STRAIGHT DOPE | 7/9/1943 | See Source »

...football year went on as a win over Brown showed fine playing by tail-back Don Richards and wing back and captain-to-be Cleo O'Donnell. But Yale was a heartbreaker. In a week-end almost like that of previous years, the Harvard men invaded the bowl to receive a stunning 7-3 loss at the hands of favored but outplayed bulldog...

Author: By Lawrence G. Raisz, | Title: '42-'43 YEAR OF TRANSITION | 7/1/1943 | See Source »

Probably on account of Donald Nelson, or some A1Nav or other, things look blacker than black for the Independence Day week-end. We'll be right down in the salt mines as usual from the looks of things, and with no portal to portal pay either...

Author: By Ensign M. J. roth, | Title: STRAIGHT DOPE | 6/25/1943 | See Source »

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