Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...River Platte and thence by way of the Arkansas and Red Rivers to the Mississippi. Dr. James became botanist, geologist and surgeon . . . They were particularly desirous of visiting what Pike called the highest peak of the mountains, which now bears the name of that distinguished explorer and soldier. Its summit had been reported inaccessible. A detachment of the party, however, conducted by Dr. James, went to the top on the 13th and 14th of July, 1820. From this circumstance it was called James' Peak, and this name is given to it on the map which accompanies the report...
...double equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee and a young soldier was erected by the Southern Memorial Association and unveiled by President Roosevelt in Lee Park at Dallas, Tex. It is a fine work of art by A. Phimister Proctor, who has just completed a group of horses called "The Mustangs" for the University of Texas campus...
Brigadier Orde Charles Wingate, God-fearing soldier son of a God-fearing soldier father, was steeped in the Old Testament. He was a Plymouth Brother, but by the time he went to Palestine as a captain in 1936 to train Jews against Arab night attacks, Wingate had come to think of the Zionist cause as if it were...
...scholar-soldier (he spoke fluent Arabic and Hebrew) went on to military glory in World War II-in Ethiopia, where his raiders disrupted the Italian army, and in Burma, where his "Chindits" raided deep into Japanese-held territory. But Wingate and his beautiful young wife Lorna always dreamed of returning to Palestine...
Sweden's Prince Bertil, third in line for the throne, arrived in Chicago for the Swedish Pioneer Centennial, crammed his 6 feet, 200 pounds into a midget racing car for a spin around the track at Soldier Field. He explained why he had not yet married at 36: "I take things very easily...