Word: mattes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other airborne outfit, the Army decided to take a hot infantry division and convert it. The choice fell on the 82nd-once commanded by Lieut. General Omar N. Bradley, then by his friend and deputy, Matt Ridgway. As Ridgway recalls it, his introduction to the airborne merry-go-round was brisk and informal. The War Department simply called him up and said: "Would you like to become airborne?" Said Ridgway, no hater of change or challenge...
...tomorrow's meet with Tufts, Coach Jaako Mikkola will have the same team that defeated Worcester Tech, 26-31, on September 16, plus lanky Matt Dick, who rejoined the squad last week after a temporary lay-off. Mikkola feels that the Tufts meet will be the Crimson's hardest, and that the whole team will have to work together...
...plates taken of Correll's injured foot show that he will be able to rejoin the team in a couple of days. Together with Foley and Matt Dick, Correll will supply the extra punch needed for the races with Tufts and M.I.T. on September 30 and October...
...fickle crowd was on its feet, cheering every Truman gain, as the last, faint chants of "We want Wallace" came from the upper tiers. Ohio added 23 to the Truman score. Then West Virginia, whose Governor Matt Neely had held firm for Wallace, broke down. It added 13 votes for Truman, enough to put him over...
Japan could not afford to let Saipan go. The shots of the U.S., getting closer & closer, were on the target now. When the Navy got Saipan, the next shots could be on the bull's eye-Japan's homeland. Opened by old Matt Perry with blandishments almost a century ago, Japan was on the way to being opened again-with steel. One of the mathematical minds behind that quickening progression was Admiral Spruance...