Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that moment the conference saw a strange sight. Leaning on the arm of Viscount Curzon-was Captain Ian Fraser, a blinded young war veteran. Slowly the two moved through the 3,500 assembled Conservative delegatives to the rostrum. Then, standing sightless, Captain Fraser made a two minute speech in which he put forward a stirring plea for faith in young British womanhood...
This year T. P. ("Tay Pay") O'Connor, 79, M. P. and a veteran of Fleet Street (which in London parlance is synonymous for journalism), was one of the guests of honor. As he strode into the low, planked ceilinged room in which a table was set for 50, he noted the portrait of Samuel Johnson by Sir Joshua Reynolds that adorns a space above the fireplace and he noted, too, the heavily timbered windows that shut out much of what little light streams in from the narrow Wine Office Court, a lane hardly more than three feet wide...
...infected patients and made available to the local physicians. The serum is not an infallible cure, but it has been found ordinarily to be a remedy if administered during the three days interval between ingestion and actual paralysis. Second, Dr. Lloyd W. Aycock, head of the Commission, and a veteran warrior against the disease, has had explained through the press the very slight differences during the three day period between a heavy fever and infantile paralysis, as well as simple precautions against infection...
Five valuable players were lost to the University team through graduation last year, especially damaging the defense. Captain J. H. Lane '28, at second defense, and H. L. Ellsion '28, a two-year veteran, at goal, will form the backbone of the University defense this year...
...Cherrie, veteran explorer and naturalist, will deliver a talk in the Living Room of the Union Wednesday at 7.30 o'clock. The subject of the lecture will be, "With the Roosevelts Through Central Asia." H. W. Bragdon '28 Vice-President and undergraduate member of the Governing Board of the Union, will preside...