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Word: veterans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...associate member of American Society of Civil Engineers, registered state engineer, World War veteran. Always have worked, always want to work. Am out of work because the organization which for 15 years I sweated for, swore by, and took pride in, turned into a political football. Will go anywhere. Want a chance to give unlimitedly of work and loyalty. Held a U. S. Civil Service rating as construction supervisor for several years but apparently Mr. Farley misplaced my address...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 23, 1939 | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

Like many another pilot's wife, Mrs. "Cash" Chamberlain has listened for years at 3,105 kilocycles on the short-wave radio for her husband's cheery voice while he, a 1,000,000-mile veteran, was on his Northwest Airlines runs. One night last week, after she had heard his buoyant "okay" as he left the plateau airport at Miles City, Mont., his voice suddenly came in again, strained, desperate: "Dispatcher! Dispatcher!" Later that night she learned that he, his crack copilot, Raymond B. Norby, and their two passengers were dead. Just out of Miles City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Pilot's Voice | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

Supporting these stellar performers will be Captain Em Walker, who won the 150 back against Dartmouth when Wilcox was sick, George Gibbons, sophomore distance man with much promise, Bill McCullough, veteran breastroker, Holmes Wilson, diver, and Art doherty, distance man. From these men the Cantabs will get the most competition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Hoopmen Tangle With Indians; Swimmers Meet Strong Bruin Natators | 1/18/1939 | See Source »

...been prizefight fans they would have yelled: "We wuz robbed." The great spectacle the tennis world had been anticipating for more than a year had been about as exciting as a ladies' Sunday morning doubles match at the club. Budge, playing below his best, had made Vines, the veteran, look like a chump, had trounced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Double Fault | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

Frank "Grandma" Tillotson, a veteran, is performing creditably in the backstroke...

Author: By Bob Storandt, (SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: BUSY WEEKEND LOOMS UP FOR CRIMSON ATHLETES | 1/13/1939 | See Source »

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