Word: batons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
JAMES F. DEAN Baton Rouge...
...Louisiana State University student comic miscellany (the Whangdoodle) printed a story of a fictitious visit by a Baton Rouge telegrapher to a professor's wife while the professor was away. Its undergraduate author was promptly expelled. The governor asked the university's president to reinstate him. The president refused. Soon the university had anew president...
...mean job well done, slim, imperturbable General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander, one of Britain's military best, won a new job, a marshal's baton. From the mud and frustration of Italy's stagnant front Alexander moved up last week to command of the Mediterranean Theater, became Britain's eighth field marshal of World...
...Soldier Dill, now armed with a Field Marshal's baton, was destined never to reach India. A topflight job developed for which he was Churchill's inevitable choice-head of the British Joint Staff Mission to Washington, set up immediately after Pearl Harbor...
...Providence, R.I. He was the awkward kind of schoolboy with blazing red hair who invariably lost his girls to sharper rivals. All thumbs at baseball, too clumsy for soccer, he met the only great chance of his athletic career (an emergency place on the relay team) by grabbing the baton and running the wrong way around the track...