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  • If Spinsanity actually had research skills, they could have called the Navy Department and found out what the criteria for the award of the Silver Star is.

    Archive 2004-08-01 2004

  • The only good work that was done by the Navy Department was the training and maintenance of a corps of excellent officers, and to their influence it was due that at last a beginning was made of the building of a new navy.

    Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima John Richard Hale

  • But the Navy Department was the cleverer of the two.

    Germany, The Next Republic? 1930

  • The Ministry of Marine (that is, the Navy Department) is situated in the Rue Saint-Florentin, near the Rue Royale and the Place de la Concorde, -- the most beautiful part of the city.

    France in the Nineteenth Century Elizabeth Latimer 1863

  • There was no institution in Ming China that resembled a "Navy Department" and therefore, as the historian Edward Dreyer suggests, "There was no vested interest to argue the case for sea power or for a blue water strategy, nor did China exercise what later naval theorists would call 'control of the seas' even during the period of Zheng He's voyages."

    New Statesman 2009

  • "The loss of battleships commits us to the strategic defensive," he told the Navy Department.

    When We Were the Underdog Ronald Spector 2011

  • Mrs. Chaplin moved to the Washington area during World War II and worked as a cartographer with the Navy Department.

    Marie L. Chaplin, investment-firm clerk Post 2011

  • Mr. Super joined the Navy Department in 1966 after many years of doing engineering work for the Army Department and working as a mid-Atlantic track supervisor for the Pennsylvania Railroad.

    William B. Super, Navy Department employee Post 2011

  • Why not shift him from the Navy Department to Treasury?

    A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

  • He asked Mason to return to the Navy Department, which he had headed in the Tyler years.

    A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

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