Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moment at the man with the Dewey button and the tear in his eye and the man with the Truman button and the tear in his eye. These men understand. They know whose absence it is that makes the heart grow heavier this autumn. And not all the brass in Bubduk can blow loud enough to make up the loss of John P. Wintergreen...
...marchers will congregate at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Beacon Street where they will be augmented by undergraduates from other local colleges. A brass band, torches, and all of the rest of the trimmings will send them on their way along the ten minute march to the Boston Arena...
...with a hard g). This month Dr. Menninger is spending only nine days in his neat, pine-paneled office in Topeka. The rest of the time he will be on the road, making speeches and drumming up enthusiasm at committee meetings, policy conferences, and get-togethers of the high brass of U.S. psychiatry...
...West Point, the brass-buttoned chests had not been so puffed up and proud since the great Davis & Blanchard graduated. Army's football team, unbeaten in its first four games, was rated among the "big four" of the nation (the others: North Carolina, Notre Dame and Michigan). What's more, it was waist deep in sophomores who are good now and almost certain to get much better...
...Cadets paraded before more brass than there is in the Harvard Band. The ceremony was impressive, though one soul remarked that they looked like male-Rockettes, and another suggested that they spell out letters for variety...