Word: crossing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yesterday chosen to be captain of the University fliers who are to be entered in the College Flying Day at Mineola, L. I., next Friday. During the war Kelton was a pilot attached to the 185th Squadron of the American Expeditionary Forces. He will fly in the 100-mile cross-country race which is one of the six events on the schedule. L. T. Lanman '20 will also be on the team, flying in the take-off and landing event. The third member of the team chosen yesterday was R. Blinn Varnum '21, who will enter the manoeuvre and acrobatic...
With the advent of the war in 1914, he was one of the first to enlist, and served with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers for five years, both in France and in Palestine, and for meritorious conduct was awarded the Military Cross and advanced to the rank of captain. This long period of carnage and fighting turned his mind to the serious aspects of the struggle, and his poems and letters began to deal with "the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed," with the result that his case came up for discussion in the House...
...Military Cross...
When the war broke out in 1914, Mr. Sassoon enlisted immediately in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers as a private, and in the following five years rose to the rank of captain. He was wounded three times and decorated with the Military Cross. His experiences entirely changed his point of view, and he began to interest himself in the political aspects of the struggle, and a letter of his on this subject was the cause of a debate in the House of Commons in July...
Saturday, June 12.--Baseball: Holy Cross at Worcester...