Word: embroyo
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...embroyo ensigns have signified their intention of accepting commissions on an active duty basis, while the remainder will become officers in the Naval Reserve. At least 28 of these will return to the University in the fall term...
Leach condemed those who had faith in our embroyo defense program, our air force still on order, and "the gentleman from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who calls himself a 'two-fisted isolationist'." Leach had interrogated Verne Marshall on the New England Town Meeting of the Air last week, when the latter remarked, "Boy, what a question-asker...
...dummy about three feet from the bottom and was for the purpose of compelling the men to get their heads down under it when tackling. This device was hung vertically by a rope in the gymnasium and while it undoubtedly taught the men to tackle low and was the embroyo of a contrivance since developed into universal usage, it was so heavy and so hard that a good many men came away from the dummy drills injured, some suffering even broken collar bones...
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