Word: vet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...companion-secretary. When Blaze charged in a surprise attack, plucky Miss Thompson snatched the Scottie into her, arms. Blaze leaped. He got 1) Fala, 2) Miss Thompson (on the left index finger). Blaze tried to finish Fala. Miss Thompson conked Blaze with a rock. Fala went to the vet for a patching-up, Blaze (by Elliott's order) went to the vet to be destroyed. The state got his head for a rabies test, found none. That saved Fala's life...
...hold the 100 new couples expected next March. Overcrowded University of Colorado is refusing admission to all out-of-staters but G.I.s. The University of Vermont has lodged some of its overflow in the Army's Fort Ethan Allen. The University of Michigan has set up a prefabricated "vet's village." Wisconsin's "Vetsburg" is a thriving town of trailers. Some 50 other campuses have trailer colonies housing from 100 to 400 couples. Unmarried students at Indiana University sleep in dormitory hallways and on cots set up in gyms and locker rooms...
...well informed men & women of all walks of life, quiet men & women who work hard and spend from one to four hours a day commuting (for which they receive no pay); people with better jobs waiting, ready at any moment to turn over their job to any returned war vet; people who, in order to help in war plants of all kinds, must pay dues and fines for the privilege of helping win the war and thus bring their sons, daughters, husbands and fathers home from the battlefield; people who are good and big enough to deserve constructive rather than...
...famed training ship for officers of the merchant fleet. Aboard, he was confronted by a "ruddy, tanned and dirty old hand" who had reached the awe-inspiring age of 1 6. Squirting tobacco juice through his broken teeth and swell ing out "a chest like a rag-bag," the vet eran questioned the newcomer: "Ah, chum; what's your name?" He was told it was John Masefield. "What's your father?" "I haven't got one." "What's your mother, then?" "I haven't got one." "Oh, you're a orphan, then; the same...
...slobbering, offers to buy you a drink, insists on your listening to his tales of what he did in the last war or what his cousin is doing in this one. He hangs onto you for at least an hour. He is the worst pest of all. . . . [A RETURNED VET] Detroit...