Word: deering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aloysius) G. Casey, who since 1920 has held every enlisted and commissioned army grade from private to field officer. Originally an ack-ack man in the Massachusetts National Guard Coast Artillery, with which he entered Federal service as a battery commander in September, 1940, he has served at Deer Island, Ft. Standish, Ft. Banks, Fortress Monroe, and half a dozen other stations on the Atlantic seaboard. An alumnus of both the Coast Artillery School and of the Adjutant General's School, he was one of the first National Guard officers to be transferred from a combat arm to the Adjutant...
Penn moved smoothly in the first 20 minutes, and picked up a 13-point lead in methodical fashion. With Sophomore Chink Crossin, fleet as a deer, netting 11 points, and a Crimson offense non-existent, the Quakers had little trouble in staying ahead. They controlled all the buckboard play. For Harvard, only Jack Torgan, who couldn't seem to miss, was able to find...
...teammates, but they are potent characters in the backcourt. Where Dartmouth asserts its superiority over anything the Ivy League has to offer is in its style of play. No pussyfoot, stand-and-set, cut-once-a-week Eastern court tactics for these babies; they run all night, cut like deer, and throw one-handed shots from behind their ears in the best Big Ten tradition. It pays...
...Unwilling Samaritan. In the Flathead National Forest, Mont., Rancher Henry Holmes encountered two deer fighting with their horns locked, shot at them, struck the horns, set them free...
...employers and unions alike know that ballyhoo alone is not the cure. Unions emphasize the impact of bad scheduling and materials shortages upon worker morale : why beat your brains out today when outside causes will lay you off tomorrow? Such layoffs have indeed occurred all too often. The deer-hunting season, for example, coincided with material shortages so severe that General Motors instructed its plant superintendents to let any worker go who wanted to shoot deer. Result: G.M.'s "absent for personal reasons" figures soared. Poor transportation, bad housing, lack of household help also discourage workers from regular attendance...