Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President Edens had much to boast of besides its millions. In the past decade, it had doubled in size (to 5,211 students), and as enrollments swelled, standards had been raised to keep out all but top-ranking applicants. World War II finally eliminated the flashy roadster; the veteran drove out the playboy...
...Student Employment Office has completed arrangements to make Christmas rush jobs with greater Boston post offices available to disabled veteran students, John W. Holt, director of Student Employment, announced yesterday...
...Henderso, captain of last year's championship Middlebury team, and Graham Taylor, veteran Harvard cross country and jump star, will serve as co-coaches during the coming season. The team will also be strengthened by the return to Cambridge of Bill Wasserman, who spent last year in the French Alps, sharpening up on technique...
...including some (like Tony's with the parlormaid) that shouldn't be played at all. But there are compensations: some bright nonsensical chatter, some skillful British acting. As the butler. George Curzon. though effective, has himself rather too good a time. As the earl, 79-year-old Veteran A. E. Matthews is brilliantly unemphatic. expertly throwing away a great many lines that the author refused...
...years ago, at 46, Montana-born Novelist Guthrie, a veteran Kentucky newspaperman (Lexington Leader), proved in his first novel, The Big Sky, that an honest imagination edged with poetic understanding could rescue the trading and trapping mountain men of the West from the fake-heroic fictional mold into which they had long been cast. Now in The Way West, Guthrie has irrevocably separated the covered-wagon pioneers of the 1840s from the busy, lusty book jackets and movie posters which have long held them in box-office thrall. Guthrie's humane and literate feat will have the mass...