Word: wellington
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them are veterans. Only one, Charles Jack, of Rochester, is a Sophomore. Two other men, Ralph Resnick, a Senior who has played only Junior Varsity basketball before, and Bill Webster, a Sophomore, may break in, but as it stands now Cornell will base its title hopes on Howie Dunbar, Wellington (Duke) Ramsey, Jim Bennett, Captain Alan Vaughan and Ken Jolly, all of whom played on the 1939 team...
...loneliest, darkest spots of Phoenix Park, Dublin, near the place where a granite monument to the Duke of Wellington stands and about a mile from the Island Bridge barracks, the Army of Eire maintains one of its major arsenals. One night last fortnight a man dressed in an Eire Army uniform approached the arsenal gates, remarked that the parcel he carried was a Christmas gift to the commanding officer...
...their skies; a German scout tried for a look at the Firth of Forth and got his tail stung for his pains. But the 16th war week's biggest air battle was an Anglo-Nazi wrangle over what happened last fortnight when a large force of Vickers Wellington bombers was tackled by Messerschmitt fighters based on Helgoland. Britain continued to claim that she lost only seven and downed twelve (out of perhaps 36) Messerschmitts; that the virtue of close formation bomber flying was proved to the hilt; that Germany's new Me-110s, twin-motored and twin-cannoned...