Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...female veterans--whose average age, experience, and interests make them veteran females as well--represent all of the services, some of the overseas theaters, and both the castes. They were nurses, photographic technicians, radar experts, Link trainer instructors, and at least one spent her time chatting with the boys at a local PX. Cynthia Brott, Radcliffe '48, spent two years overseas in Iceland and England wielding needled and syringe with the Army Nurse Corps. Anne Kennedy, one of the Wellesley's more nature women, ground out the war at Wright Field, Ohio, as a photographic technician in an optical research...
...age of ten, apparently ignorant of the existence of two sexes, she had wanted to be a Marine. Aspiration was stunted, however, as knowledge grew. "And when the war broke out," she explained, "I heard about the Womens' Reserve of the Marine Corps, and joined up." This was killing two roes with one stone, for not only did she get to be a Leatherneck, but the stretch in green entitled her to years in plaid, beige, or lavender at any college that would take her. "I'd never even heard of Radcliffe before," she said, "but when a friend...
...opposite sex and consequent social whirl is understandable. The "maturing process," however, is a singular something Miss Brott, a biochemistry major, didn't work up in the laboratory. "The Radcliffe girl comes here from high-school, a sweet young thing and all of that, and seems to age overnight. The difference between the Freshman and the Junior is amazing...
...Tarrytown, N. Y., gives birth to a normal baby girl and Mr. Adam goes to Washington as the greatest hero since Lindbergh. Such is the new moved by journalist Frank, who deftly beams a spotlight on the tightrope that the ordinary Joe and wife must tread during an atomic age...
...Dever see such an election year?" asked the Sage of the Age. "The Republicans say they'll win in a Walsh, but Dewey think so? I Mead to concentrate, or I'll ballot...