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number in demand greatly exceeded the
At this stage of the war, that is to say in the earlier years of it, the government was obliged to accept such men as it could obtain for officers, for the number in demand greatly exceeded the supply of regularly educated naval officers.
— from On The Blockade by Oliver Optic


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