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...twice as big as ordinary fleet boats, with a pair of six-inch guns, two decks and six 21-inch torpedo tubes. Before she was scrapped because of old age in 1946, World War II's Nautilus went on 14 successful patrols, was the first U.S. sub to sink a Japanese aircraft carrier (the 10,000-ton Soryu, at Midway), and landed raiders before the invasions of Tarawa, Makin and Attu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Chambered Nautilus | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

...writer, for one, is endlessly baffled and fascinated at the never-ending plunge of the American male, lemming-like, into the sea of matrimony, to sink beneath the waves of department-and specialty-shop bills ... to say nothing of the storms of abuse, vilification, contempt and scorn from his wife and daughters . . . Nobody but a hopeless fool would sacrifice his freedom for such a horrible reward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 10, 1951 | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

...boarded and captured by U.S. sailors since the Peacock took H.M.S. Nautilus in the Sunda Strait in 1815. A boarding party from one of Gallery's destroyers leaped aboard just after the Germans abandoned the crippled ship, and just before enough water poured in to sink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tales of the Atlantic | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

...third tie game of the season. Harvard took 25 shots at Bruin goalie Joe Tauro 16 in the first half--but could sink only one in four 22-minute periods and two overtimes. Actually, Tauro made only 15 saves: the other Crimson attempts were inaccurate. Yesterday's draw in the next to last game of the season brings the Crimson record to two with three defeats, and three ties...

Author: By James M. Storey, | Title: Last-Minute Brown Score Ties Crimson Booters, 1-1 | 11/17/1951 | See Source »

...publicity campaign put on by Lewis and his fellow officers. But most of it is probably due to a bright new $12,000 snack bar installed two weeks ago as a gift of graduate members of the Club. The snack bar, composed of a refrigerator unit, sink, and shelves, is stocked with about anything a red-blooded American youth could want--everything, that is, except beer...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: Circling the Square | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

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