Word: collette
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...18th, and beaten. In the finals, tournament-wise Dorothy Kielty, winner of last year's Western, met her match. Mrs. Dorothy Germain Porter, 25-year-old housewife of Westmont, N.J., beat her 3 and 2, became the first mother to take the title since Glenna Collett Vare took it 14 years...
Actually, OPA was not as adamant as it seemed. It had been ready to give a $2-a-ton increase (the steelmen asked for $7), had even prepared an order to that effect. Stabilization Director John Collett did not like the order but sent it along to OWMR Boss John Snyder anyway. He turned it down...
With baseball competition over, the selection of an all-star nine has been released by Chief Dunlap. The team includes Mulver (Co. C) 1b; McCabbe (Co. D) 2b; Momnie (Co. C) 3b; Craft (Co. C) ss; Collett (Co. C) lf; Green (Co. B) cf; McCleary (Co. B) rf; Boyce (Co. C) c; Wright (Co. C) p; Robb (Lowell) p; and Fleming (Co. B) p. At the same time, the intramural spotlight has turned to House football and the four teams which will form the intramural grid league this fall...
...bullet got Wine in the head while he was still at his gun. A 20-mm. shell laid open the skipper's cheek. The nose gunner came back to help but a bullet hit the generator and it exploded and he died in the arms of Sergeant Howard Collett. Collett got out his Bible and began to read out loud: 'God so loved the world, that He gave . . .' Then a bullet hit Collett in the stomach...
...three years the London Times Educational Supplement and the Supplement's editor, energetic, fiftyish Harold Collett Dent, have been pitching thunderbolts, helping arouse the public until Parliament is cornered. A reform program, presented to Parliament by the head of the Board of Education, would use the first seven postwar years to create a system costing ?67,400,000 more annually, a more than 50% hike in the British education budget. Some proposed reforms...