Word: 41st
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wooded, gullied fields around Polly Ray Mountain at Fort Bragg, N.C., 18,000 troops of the Ninth Division moved for maneuvers. Everything was set for a nice little black & white wargame. Infantrymen and artillerymen were to attack the hill. The defenders were Lieut. Colonel John Elliott Wood's 41st Engineers, the first regiment of Negro engineers in the new Army...
...41st decided to make an offensive defense. Hell and "Smoky Joe" Wood's black, grinning engineers broke loose at the same time. Out of the scrub, up from concealing gullies roared an avalanche of darky-driven trucks. Because the 41st still lacked combat equipment, like most of the Army, the trucks represented a battalion of tanks. After the make-believe tanks came more trucks, acting as troop carriers...
Earlier in the school year, there were two other meetings which honored the noted professor, the Conference on Methods in Philosophy and the Sciences, held November 23, 1941, at the New School for Social Research in New York, and the 41st annual meeting of the American Philosophical Society, held December 29, 1941, at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, presented Ralph B. Perry, professor of Philosophy, brother of novelist Henry James...
...Manchester, Vt., over the picturesque Ekwanok Country Club course, campus golfers from 30 colleges teed up in the 41st annual tournament for the Intercollegiate Golf Championship. Among the 145 contestants were a Vanderbilt and Walter Hagen Jr. But the names of most of America's top-flight college golfers were unfamiliar to U. S. galleries...
...annex to the World's Fair, this was the 41st annual Scientific Exhibit of the American Medical Association. The biggest and best medical show of all times, it was attended by a record crowd of 12,763 doctors from all over the U. S. The sampling doctors took home many a practical bit of new medical technique...