Word: cadet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...current recruiting ads, the U.S. Air Force boasts that each new cadet will get training worth $35,000. This is $10,000 more than it cost to train a flyer for World...
Milt. Buzby and Tom Drohan, free styler and diver, should take their events, although Buzby, who surprised all be winning against Tech, may face very tough competition indeed from the Cadet's Lamden, a Yale-trained transfer student the Point who shone in last year's meet here. In the breaststroke, an event which was taken handily against M.I.T., Captain Chuck Hoelzer leads the visitors...
Finishing third last year as opposed to a mediocre eighth-place rating gained by the Cadots, the Crimson should take tomorrow's encounter. But the final outcome will probably depend on the freestyle dashes, the Cadet's strongest events, and on the relays, where strong bids can be expected from the visitors...
Musorgsky learned early to drink like a gentleman; later he just drank. At 13, already a talented pianist, he entered the School of Guards Ensigns in St. Petersburg, where according to one account, "all free time after drilling was dedicated by the cadets to dancing, amours, and drink. General Sutgof was . . . proud when a cadet came back from leave drunk with champagne, sprawled in an open carriage drawn by his own trotters...
...President of the United States in 1956," Roosevelt wrote on Dec. 17, 1941: "I am writing this letter as an act of faith in the destiny of our country. ... My request is that you consider the merits of [this] young American of goodly heritage ... for appointment as a cadet...