Word: siwashes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...professions too. Women's hands were turning to many campus skills. More of them were working in laboratories than ever before. They were guiding more tracing pens over engineers' drawing boards. At Iowa State College the newspaper had its first woman editor. At Knox College ("Old Siwash") the petticoat rule of student publications, which began last year, continued...
...veteran of Tarawa, Saipan and Tinian was on his way home last week, on leave. His name: Siwash. His species: duck (the mascot of a Marine Corps artillery outfit). His combat record...
...Tarawa, where he landed with the early waves, Siwash routed, single-winged, a Jap rooster...
Ethnologist Adney has always been a curious fellow. As artist-correspondent for Harper's Weekly he covered the Klondike Gold Rush of '97, proved that Robert Henderson and not George ("Siwash") Carmack made the original strike. He came home, wrote a best seller (The Klondike Stampede), lectured and had his picture in a parka plastered on American billboards...
...Marine hero of the Tarawa battle was Siwash, an artillery battalion's mascot. Siwash is a duck. Landing with his outfit, Siwash spent 36 hours under fire, in the first 15 minutes of his invasion beat the stuffing out of a Jap rooster, attacked and routed a shell-shocked Jap pig. Siwash showed no battle strain...