Word: mate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bryan Untiedt, nationally famed schoolboy hero of 1931 (he cared for 14 schoolmates in a blizzard-bound Colorado bus, dined with President Hoover at the White House), joined the Navy in Denver as a carpenter's mate...
...doctor was aboard when a sailor on a U.S. submarine was stricken with acute appendicitis somewhere in the South Pacific. But a member of the crew-the chief pharmacist's mate-had once witnessed an appendectomy. "It was operate or certain death," wrote Lieut. Franz Hoskins to his family in Tacoma (Wash.) last week, "for the patient's temperature was 106°." So, with the help of the ship's commander and two machinist's mates, Lieut. Hoskins administered the anesthetic and the pharmacist's mate bravely cut open the patient, located and removed...
Captain Jack Farley, although he has been working out with the Varsity squad during the week, will be on hand to lead his mates from his left end post. Freshman Dick Withington will again be his running mate. Corny Atkins and Bruce smart are the second pair of flankmen...
...Elis so completely dominated the competition that they placed three in the first four. Schwartzkopf ran the five mile course in easy fashion to win by 400 yards over his team mate, Bill Castle, with a time of 26 minutes 41.2 seconds...
...posts, Nelson will have Captain Jack Farley and Dick Withington out trying to stop the wide sweeps and deep reverses of the Red and Gray. Mike Kahn is set at left tackle, while Ed Nabham will probably get the nod over Lyman Beeman as his running-mate...