GI
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That helps isolate the specific impacts of the GI Bill, the landmark 1944 law that effectively provided free college to millions of returning U.S. servicemen.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026
The GI generation, the cohort that became the core of the postwar middlebrow phenomenon, would not have made that mistake.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2026
A growing population, the GI Bill, increased enrollment of women and minority students, the clear financial returns of four-year degrees and federal student loans all helped swell college enrollment and the American economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
Ask whether your patient has any history of functional GI symptoms.
From Slate ● Mar. 22, 2026
After Parker finished his military service, he used the GI Bill to earn a degree in civil engineering from the Colorado School of Mines—as far from the South as he could get.
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
“It was lugged home in some GI’s duffel bag, without its case.”
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2024
Anyway, after the bomb was dropped, the GI's who worked at the laboratory came up and shook my hand and said, “You were the person who stuck the hand of the great Enrico Fermi.”
From Scientific American ● Jul. 27, 2023
“I am not suggesting for any moment that I know,” of the GI’s location, Gen. Harrison said Monday.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 24, 2023
The aircraft chase the GI’s informal prayer as reliably as the violins tail the piano in Chanda Dancy’s treacly score.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2022
After all, thousands of GI's had probably been discharged with a duffel bag full of "liberated" Very pistols and flares.
From The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Ruppelt, Edward J.
In theory, the law was “colorblind,” offering the same educational support to Black GIs as to white GIs.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026
"The soldiers who once called each other Redcoats and Yankees became the Tommies and the GIs who together saved the free world," he said.
From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026
American GIs brought swing records, Lucky Strike cigarettes and the Sears Roebuck mail-order catalog to Inuit residents who embraced the possibilities of 20th-century life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 24, 2026
D’Aquino’s defense: She had been slyly subverting the propaganda machine the whole time, entertaining Americans with facetious language no one could take seriously and introducing upbeat American music the GIs actually loved.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025
The GIs I saw at Chu Lai looked sharp enough to be in a parade; these guys looked as if they had just come in from a hard day’s work, a damn hard day’s work.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
