Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nash, a 1916 Rhodes Scholar and a veteran of British Army campaigns in India and East Africa in 1917-18, is vice-president of the United World Federalists and the author of several books...
...most part, the Democrat won by large majorities, and produced some astounding surprises. Paul Douglas, a through-going internationalist, beat the Illinois veteran, Senator Curley Brooks, an equally thorough-going isolationist. Deleware's Senator Buck was upset, and in Idaho, conservative Senator Dworshak was edged...
There are now no non-veteran Freshmen living outside the Yard. Veterans of '52 will move into vacancies as they occur, Fenn explained, on a voluntary basis. He said there was no way of knowing how many vacancies would appear during the year...
Today's typical German university man is a war veteran, 26 years old, intensely eager to finish his education and start earning a living. What leisure he has, the student usually spends in keeping alive-rebuilding his shattered house, making forays to the countryside for food, trading in the black market. He is ten times as likely to have T.B. as in normal times; the odds are one in five that he is a cripple or amputee...
...Largo. A veteran recovers his self-respect fighting gangsters. Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor et al. do fine work in John Huston's adaptation of a Maxwell Anderson play (TIME...