Word: asa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seventeen were captured by the Japs in the Philippine campaign. Three were wounded in New Guinea. Five Air Forces generals - Tinker, Harold H. ("Pursuit") George, Ken Walker, Ramey and Asa Duncan - have been lost in action or operations against the enemy. Two other Air Forces general officers (Dargue and Wash) have been killed in operations...
...Compensation. In Miami, Asa Sebits arrived from Detroit with a new ambulance for delivery to the Red Cross, explained how he had got gasoline en route without a ration book. Two celebrating soldiers he had picked up had passed out, and Sebits told a gas station operator they were dead. The operator took a look, believed him, filled the tank. Donor of the ambulance: the W.C.T.U...
...Summer School which reached its peak this July with a total of 4167 students, male and female, is a far cry from those botany classes, conducted by the new-famous Professor Asa Gray. With 964 women to entertain the 2,000 undergraduates, this summer session is a refreshing non-Harvardlike phenomenon...
...Tenacious, affable, Brigadier General Asa North Duncan, 50, is chief of staff. In 1918 he was less chunky but equally tenacious as a two-gun photographer-observer. Citadon: "Duncan fought until both his guns were hopelessly jammed by shots which pierced both magazine drums. He was twice knocked down by the impact of shots against his gun mount." Not until after World War I did he win his pilot's wings...
William J. Bingham '16, director of athletics, has been elected president of the Pentagonal Hockey League, it was announced yesterday by Asa S. Bushnell, director of the central office for Eastern Intercollegiate Athletics...