Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Summer competition among the intramural sporting set will heighten in intensity this afternoon at Soldiers Field when the Lowell House We-Can-Take-It If-You-Can softball outfit battles with Kirkland's famous Diamond Devils...
...Chief Warrant Officer Hugh Curry, whose home is in Cambridge, the band is normally attached to the Washington Military District and plays at all formal military occasions around the capitol. One of its principal duties is playing for military funerals at Arlington National Cemetery. The outfit, however, came to Cambridge directly from Des Moines, Iowa, where they were on hand for the State Centennial celebration...
...gratuitous slur upon all chaplains when he refers to them as holders of noncombat commissions who came safely and comfortably through the war under the protection of combat soldiers. . . . Chaplains did hold noncombat commissions in that they carried no weapons. But they were assigned to every combat outfit in the Army, and had less protection than the average combat soldier since they did not carry weapons. Seventy-seven of them were killed in action, 253 were, wounded, and 82 died in non-battle, including five who died in prison camps...
This week a minor recording outfit, West Coast Recordings, released four Lu Watters records, planned to turn out 32 more. They included classics like Canal Street Blues, Creole Belles and Chattanooga Stomp, and originals like Turk Murphy's Trombone Rag and Lu's Antigua Blues, named after the ship on which Lu did Navy duty. Watters' boys have an impressive library of 200 oldtime tunes-all "in their heads...
Smith, who bore his laurels proudly but modestly, enlisted in the Marine Corps during his Freshman year in March 1943, and took part in the battle of Guam as a member of a Corps Artillery outfit. He was discharged as a corporal on April 7 of this year. The registration winner, a resident of Winthrop House and South Weymouth, and an Economics concentrator, is now also the possessor of Harvard badge of merit-a free copy of every Crimson to appear this summer...