Word: cadet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cadet George Olmsted nosed out Haddon Tomes 3-1; Cliff Worthy defeated Charles Elliott 3-0, and John Haskin downed Harvard's Lawrence Brownell...
...75th birthday celebration, Poet-Author Carl Sandburg (see BOOKS) told a New York Times writer why it was that, in 1899, he flunked out as a West Point cadet: "It was arithmetic and grammar. Those verbs again. They are terrible things. Nouns are definite, the names of persons or things, but verbs cause all the trouble in the world. All lawsuits are about something coming between two nouns-those verbs...
...Those cadets who did not wish to sign up for the unit's social functions had to present their reasons not to Colonel Bostrom, as you stated, but to Colonel Krieger, the cadet colonel and a student at the University...
...indeed the cadet colonel they must report to. Yet, we feel that this does not impair the editorial's main contention, since the cadet colonel is responsible for a large part of what goes into a candidate's final grade...
...dollar dues must explain why to the Colonel. Colonel Bostram is obviously no martinet, but the very necessity of explaining something to one's commanding officer, something he won't particularly like, is a substantial psychological block. "Why risk it for two bucks?" is the usual reaction, and the cadet joins...