Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Redmonds and Harold Blair are the sole occupants of the 118 and 128-pound classes. Don Miles, another Exeter veteran, is favored in the 155-pound class...
...ready for a bigger and better year than ever from his forward spot, and his running mate, Chet Legg, carries plenty of scoring punch. Hill Humes is well ahead in the scrap for the pivot post and Lupe Lupien is a fixture as one of the guards. The veteran Fred Hockel has held down the other guard position ever since the first practice session, and he has done a fine job filling the shoes of last year's Captain Vern Struck...
Their military headquarters, located in dozens of central villages, keep in touch with each other by telephone and wireless equipment, much of it filched from the Japanese. At their general headquarters, where a "general staff" of young officers, lent by the 8th Route (former Communist) Army, veteran Manchurian fighters and college students plan widespread attacks, the Associated Pressman discovered their well-thumbed textbook on guerrilla warfare: a translation of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by the late famed Lieut.-Colonel T. E. Lawrence of Arabia...
...Veteran. Big, stoop-shouldered George Fielding Eliot got his baptism of fire as a second lieutenant of Australian infantry. He began to write, however, as a major of the U. S. military intelligence reserve. Behind this shift of allegiance lay a long story: born in Brooklyn 44 years ago, he migrated to Australia with his parents at eight, returned to the U. S. to school, was in college at Melbourne when the War broke out. He fought at the Dardanelles from May through August 1915, was transferred to the Western front, where he went through the battles of the Somme...
Back in the U. S., Lieutenant Eliot became a reserve officer (the courts decided that his oath to the King did not count because he had been under 21 when he made it). Like many a veteran he drifted, like many a veteran pored over military history to find out what had happened during the battles that had been only nightmares of confusion. In Kansas City in 1926 he picked up a pulp magazine, War Stories, decided he could do as well, typed out an account of a war experience...