Word: yeomanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next offer a series of "Undergraduate Sketches." The Concert will then be resumed by the Glee Club, which will sing a negro spiritual, "Sit Down Servant," with Drue King '43, vice-president-elect of the club, as leader; Bachchanale from "La Belle Helene," by Offenbach; and Chorus from "The Yeoman of the Guard," by Sullivan...
Boatswain's Mate, Coxswain, Quartermaster, Signalman, Seaman, First & Second Class, Radioman, Carpenter's Mate, Shipfitter, Boilermaker, Electrician's Mate, Fireman, Yeoman, Storekeeper, Ships Cook and Machinist's Mate...
Today Ordnance's big job is production -in which it has had the yeoman help of U.S. business. One of the outstanding jobs of U.S. defense is Ordnance's building of a great powder, shot & shell industry (TIME, Oct. 20). But Ordnance was not ready with prepared designs of modern weapons for industry to manufacture. To meet World War II, it had no outstand ing tank models. It had developed no outstanding artillery piece. The one weapon peculiar to the U.S. Army that it developed was an infantry piece: the semiautomatic Garand rifle...
...British Foreign Office looked benevolently on, two countries of the Middle East acquired new rulers last week. In neither case had the British officially played kingmakers, but in both cases they had done yeoman work behind the scenes. They were very well satisfied with the results...
Lieut. Commander Winchell, U.S.N.R. (Retired), gobbed for the Navy in World War I. He was a yeoman-receptionist to the late Rear Admiral Marbury Johnston in the New York City customs house...