Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard's chapter of the American Veteran's Committee has resolved to fight the Rankin Veteran's Pension Bill in every way possible," Publicity Chairman Roy F. Gootenberg '49 announced last night...
...complimented and he corrected. And without any possible way of distinguishing personnel, he consistently complimented the veteran and corrected the novice...
After seven exciting weeks of hunting big game in East Africa (bag thus far: five lions, 38 assorted wild critters), beefy Tenor Lauritz Melchior had a narrow squeak. The Metropolitan's veteran dragonslayer fired as a charging Cape buffalo came at him, fired again & again & again, finally dropped the one-ton beast less than ten feet away...
...olds) was made public. It surprised nobody that Calumet Farm's Citation was honored with top-weight of 137 lbs. Next in line: Coaltown, 126, and My Request, 124. The man hired by the Thoroughbred Club to "put the figures on them" was owlish little Lincoln Plaut, 50, veteran field director of the Daily Racing Form. Having pegged Citation at 137, he had laid a basis for comparing him with champions of the future...
...hoodlum charged with killing a cop. Bogart has known "Pretty Boy" for years, mistakenly believes him innocent, and blames society for the boy's criminal ways. To prove his point to the jury, he tells, in flashbacks, the sordid story of Romano's life. In the telling, Veteran Bogart inevitably displaces young Newcomer Derek as the real center of interest...