Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Lyda Dunham, formerly a senior stenographer in the Stat School office, is now in Houston, Texas, with the Flying Training Command as a student pilot...
...rules of military courtesy apply--- rank takes precedence. But because military courtesy includes deference to women, and because a senior's wish is an implied command, if a senior male officer indicates he prefers courtesy to women above the strict military usage, the junior female should act accordingly without any hesitation or embarrassing counter-deference...
Simply stated, the normal military procedure for a WAVE ensign is to stand aside for a male lieutenant, and the senior male officer is acting in a perfectly proper manner if he assumes the privileges of his rank. But if the lieutenant indicates he wishes the ensign to go ahead first, the she is supposed to go without any fuss or feathers...
...from nowhere to win the National A.A.U. championship with a 4:08.7 mile indoors and 3:50.2 for 1,500 meters outdoors, he was expected to be 1943's supermiler. But in last week's mile Dodds lost to an unrecognized challenger: Earl Mitchell, University of Indiana senior.* Trailing Dodds by some ten yards from the halfway mark until the final lap, the Hoosier then licked Dodds by four full yards in the second fastest mile (4:08.6) in 36 Millrose Games. Fastest: Chuck Fenske...
...butcher's son in Stratford, "a country youth who has to leave school early in order to assist his father in the killing of cattle . . . one who sows his wild oats so liberally that he must, first, marry against his will a woman eight years his senior, and, secondly, run away to London, apparently to escape legal prosecution...