Word: junior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canvas Tanks. An official Russian statement said that a leader of scouts, Junior Lieut. Sobchenko, while looking at a column of tanks through field glasses, "noticed that the body of one of the tanks unexpectedly gave in under the pressure of the elbow of an officer who leaned against it. Careful observation revealed that of 20 tanks constituting the column, only one was a genuine tank. The others were wooden structures covered with canvas and mounted on caterpillars. Only the real tank that led the column could fire shells, the others conducted only machine-gun fire...
...Peter II of Yugoslavia, 17, reached London safely, prepared to establish his Government-in-Exile there. << John L Lewis Jr. graduated from not-so-laborite Princeton. The labor leader brought his cigar along and watched. << George Weyerhaeuser, famed kidnap victim of 1935, now 15, graduated from a Tacoma, Wash, junior high school. << Joseph P. Kennedy's second-youngest daughter, Patricia, 17, was chosen to bottle-whack the S.S. President Polk, last of the American President Lines' new series of combination freight-and-passenger vessels...
...style changed from the childish scissors to the Western roll (going over parallel with the bar). By the time he was an eighth-grader, young Steers could jump 6 ft. 2 in., competed with San Francisco's famed Olympic Club in big-time meets. As a high-school junior, he often cleared...
...varsity eight, undefeated this season: the Harvard-Yale boat race, oldest (1852) intercollegiate sport event in the U.S.; for the sixth year in a row; by three lengths over a four-mile course; on the Thames at New London, Conn. Earlier in the day, Harvard's junior varsity and freshman crews had outrowed Yale for the fourth straight year...
...eyed, 180-lb. Alfred Diebolt, Colgate junior: the 440-yd. race of New York's Metropolitan A.A.U. track & field championships; in 46.9 sec., fastest quarter-mile in its 50-year history; at Triborough Stadium, New York City. Young Diebolt, son of a onetime Colgate track star, lost his right eye in an auto accident when...