Word: yeomans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pressed into troopship service in World War I, she used her speed (23 knots) to zigzag alone through submarine-infested waters. She also performed yeoman service in World War II, carrying 384,586 servicemen to & from battle. Never once was the Aquitania, known as "Grannie," fired on. Between wars she averaged a trip a fortnight from Southampton to New York, carried some 700,000 passengers. Recently the old ship, still in her stripped-down war condition, has been carrying immigrants to Canada. Last week, tied up at the Southampton dock after 35 years' service, the Aquitania was retired. Said...
...pigeons lay headless on the very greensward of the medieval Tower of London where Anne Boleyn's head had rolled. "At night," said one of the Tower's famed Beefeaters last week, "we heard awful noises in the casements." Yeoman Quartermaster Thomas Johns set out four traps, and what he caught was enough to startle even that grizzled veteran of two wars. "I thought," he said, "I was in the wilds of Borneo. I saw nothing like this one in India." The quarry was a huge and ferocious cat whose writhing body "nearly filled the two-foot cage...
...Lockwood and Rakowski (he batted in four Lion runs), got pitcher Bob Swanson four more tallies in the second. After that, the Crimson infield offered Godin some decent support and Godin aided his own cause by striking out 13 batters, driving in Harvard's first three runs, and doing yeoman work afield...
...Yeoman," grinned his assistant. "And tell me Howell the score come...
Harvard Cornell DiBlasio(100) LER Tront (100) Bradlee (200) LTR Davis (205) Houston (200) LGR Galloway (190) O'Brien (205) C Yeoman (185) Coan (200) RGL Lunn (195) Bender (205) RTL Feir (200) Mazzone (195) REL Foldberg (183) Henry (190) QB Galiffa (190) Noonan (170) or Roche (186) LHR Scott (173) O'Donnell (155) RHL Stuart (175) Shafer (193) or Gannon (180) FB Cosentine (190) Kickoff...