Word: vets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same time, VA Administrator Carl Gray announced a new instruction, to the effect that if any vet intends to change from one general field of studies to another, he can continue to get GI Bill of Rights benefits only after the VA's advice and guidance service has determined the student's aptitude or need for the change...
...When will you do it?" somebody asked the vet...
...telephone, the word came from Trainer Hirsch and Owner Bob Kleberg. The vet placed the bell-shaped horse gun on Air Lift's forehead, fired the shot.* The colt toppled over on his side. The stable hands who stood around could think of nothing much to say. They had seen horses die before-but few with as much promise as Air Lift...
...indulgent mad hatter," said the Manchester Guardian of Harpo & Chico Marx, now appearing on the London stage (Groucho was at home). The London Times burbled: "What makes these great clowns is this combination of fun and fantasy with something else, a mixture of worldly wisdom and naïveté, of experience but also of an innocence never altogether lost, of dignity and absurdity together, so that for a moment we love and we applaud mankind...
...Philadelphia, 86-year-old Connie Mack has a rookie pitcher who looks even better. He is Alex Kellner, 24, a Navy vet whose father once pitched a no-hitter for Tucson in the Arizona-Texas League and whose grandfather once fought John L. Sullivan in a New Orleans exhibition. Last week at Shibe Park, exploiting his breaking stuff and a fast ball that "takes off," Southpaw Kellner won No. 10 by limiting the White Sox to five hits. With a 10-3 record, he is well on his way to becoming a 20-game winner his first year...