Word: vet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Student's Participation Ticket enough to get the organization out of debt. Or did the price of handballs go up with the murder of OPA, causing increased operating costs To tax a student's wife, already hard pressed to find an occasional evening's recreation within her vet-husband's 90-buck budget, an extra 40-odd percent for a swim is a practice that surely will not bring praise to the Harvard Athletic Association. John Lawrence...
...prize catches (so far, 132 of the 1,000 tagged have been hooked). Richard Lavesque, nine-year-old polio victim, walked from his home for the first time in two years, took 35? worth of equipment to the edge of White Bear Lake, landed a tagged sunfish. War Vet Elmer Hauge poled a pike at Pequot Lakes-its jaw tag was the lucky number 1,000. And I. O. Bane of Deer River, who caught a tagged fish on June 23, returned to the same hole last week and landed another. His present problem: what to do with two batches...
...assessment for the summer term meant cashing in bonds, a quick trip to the favorite Dean, a chit to see Dean Sperry at the Divinity School, or a combination of all three. And, at the same time, the $195 bill became an obligation that must hang over the vet's head until the monthly good news from Washington finally clears...
Wisconsin quartered 1,866 veterans in a powder plant 35 miles from the campus, 1,660 more at an Army airfield. Columbia established a "trailer campus," charging veterans for parking space but not for rent. At Rhode Island State, 28 Quonsets on Vet Row were jammed, eleven students to a hut. The president of Ohio's Marietta College took in boarders. Some hardy students at U.C.L.A. slept in all-night movies and parked cars...
...airlines has dimmed the future of all unscheduled carriers. They can now fly without CAB permission. But so many have started up that CAB will probably bring them under strict regulation to prevent cutthroat competition and keep flying as safe as it is. If that happens, many a vet line will have to fold its wings...