Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when she left Ciudad Juárez to join the army of General Venustiano Carranza. She became a nurse. Dressed in a green uniform cut from the curtains of a Pullman car, she rode through the Mexican Revolution on a grey hospital train under the watchful eye of a veteran head nurse named Leonor Villegas de Manon...
...Crimson boasts two veteran polo enthusiasts in Co-Captains Sandy Calhoun and Emil van Peborgh, who start at number two forward and defense. Calhoun learned his polo in the Philippine Islands before the war and more recently on last year's team, while Van Peborgh practiced on the Pampas down in his native Argentine...
...third member of the starting lineup, "Dusty" Howland, is also a veteran of last year's shortened season...
Playing every game for the booters this fall, Batchelder allowed only seven enemy goals while the Crimson scored 31 times against opponents. The six foot, 21-year-old Navy veteran had seven shutouts to his credit in Harvard's 11-game schedule...
Died. Edgar ("Slow Burn") Kennedy, 58, bald, veteran cinema comic (henpecked star of The Average Man two-reelers); of cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif...