Word: cadets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gamma Sigma's president, is a complicated back flip in which a performer leaps into the air, twists his body into a horizontal arc "which he holds momentarily," then lights on his hands, flips his feet over his head and finishes as erect as a West Point cadet. "Less than 30% of the Gamma Sigmas are able to do it," admits President Ritter, who broke his wrist Ritter-spanning last year. Most Gamma Sigmas can do the Nelson Arch (a less complicated back flip) and Duos (synchronized tumbling by two or more...
...Paris, Vienna-born Composer Oscar Straus, 69 (The Chocolate Soldier), was granted final French citizenship. In London, Rogers S. Lament, Manhattan lawyer, distant relative of Banker Thomas William Lament, took the oath of allegiance to King George VI, began training as an artillery cadet. In a Ukrainian city, Ruth Marie Rubens, 31, Philadelphia woman who went to Russia in 1937 on a forged passport, became U.S.S.R. Citizeness Ruth Friederichnova Boerger. In Manhattan, Elisabeth Rethberg, Metropolitan Opera soprano, received her final papers for U. S. citizenship...
...Flying cadet training, designed is "keep apace of the increased number of planes under the Air Corps expansion", will be explained to students in the University during the next three days by a visiting Army board...
...years there have been some great doings. In 1859 a band of 100 cadets trooped to Charles Town to witness the hanging of an indiscreet fanatic named John Brown. In 1861 a 37-year-old instructor quit his ten-year job at V. M. I., went off to become Stonewall Jackson, the Great Hope of the South. The school graduated 823 men who became officers in the Confederate Army, ranking from major general to second lieutenant. The entire cadet corps rushed to New Market to help check the Union advance through Shenandoah Valley. Union troops later burned their school buildings...
...wall, but if the Sophomore-studded Crimson eleven can carry on from where it left off in Palmer Stadium last Saturday, chances of victory improve. The Harlowmen are prepared to take to the air themselves and toss the ball around if they are unable to crack the Cadet forward wall...