Word: persons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having served under him in the U.S. Navy I am willing to bet that the other 500 men of the former crew of the U.S.S. Pitt will vouch that they have never known of any one person who used adjectives more dramatically or profusely than Lieut. Commander Goodrich, no matter whether he was instructing, explaining, praising or more especially reprimanding with super-adjectival expletives...
...last season's record alone, the Scarlet and Grey Engineers have a decided edge in today's regatta. Jim McMillan's varsity beat the Crimson three times in '46 and was called "the second best crew in the country" by no less a person than Tom Bolles at the close of the season. The Engineers' time trials have reportedly been extremely successful thus far. Princeton is the only one of the three to have raced already this year, having opened its campaign a week ago by beating Penn across the line by a trifle more than a length. The Tigers...
Radcliffe will send an entry to the annual college poetry contest at Mount Holyoke College in the person of Judith Nelson, Radcliffe '49, whose poem, "On the Death of a Friend," was selected last night as the best original work by a 'Cliffedweller...
...from a city hospital during LeBar's stay there were called back for vaccination. Thousands of New Yorkers queued up at vaccination centers. At week's end, Mayor William O'Dwyer decided to "pour in every available piece of machinery and manpower to insure that every person in the city is vaccinated." He summoned the city's 175,000 wartime air-raid wardens to ring doorbells, set up free vaccination centers in police stations, health centers, hospitals...
...feel like a little child again, as a child takes for granted that there are bigger people always above her. . . . My muscles are working while they chatter, while they pose, disarranging their lives, striving perpetually to get things straight, yet merely disarranging matters more; while I, I am the person who is constantly straightening things out, keeping life fit to live...