Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members of the University are eligible, including Freshmen and graduate students, it is difficult to say what unknown forces may be discovered to bolster the veteran material...
...first baptism of fire and his first impressions of European cannon when British battleships bombarded Kagoshima, where Togo served in one of the smoothbore, muzzle-loading batteries. Three years later he joined the Navy, fought all through Japan's civil war. "At 21 he was a naval veteran of more actual combat experience than many an officer acquires in a lifetime of service." Early marked as a sound fellow, Togo was one of twelve young officers sent to England to get his training straight from the lion's mouth. To his British instructors too he seemed sound...
...oldfashioned, literary poems into the brutal realism of Counter-Attack, whose taste was too strong for many a stay-at-home. His autobiography (Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer) was a quiet masterpiece of emotion recollected in post-War tranquillity. Now, even for Veteran Sassoon, the War is long over. In middle-age (he is 49), he lives in retirement near Stonehenge, writes gently minor poems that will seem old-fashioned to most readers of 1936. Of the 35 poems in Vigils, not one will taste bitter, few will have much taste...
Although it was expected that the veteran Varsity fencers would come out on top, the Yardling foils squad has definite promise and showed up well against the more experienced opposition...
...private, they follow the same itinerary as baseball players but travel on different trains, stop at different hotels. To relieve the opprobrium of their calling, which takes only six months of every year, most umpires follow more gregarious sidelines in the winter. Umpire Ernest Quigley, a National League veteran of 22 years, has a hog ranch in Kansas. Until recently, he also taught English history and mathematics at St. Mary's College in Kansas. Umpire Charles Moran was football coach at Centre College, developed famed "Bo" McMillin. Umpire "Beans" Reardon, famed for his raucous voice, is a Hollywood...