GI
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Joseph attended Harvard University on the GI bill and completed majors in math and physics in just three years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
The researchers noted that "geographical regions influence the risk of GI cancers," suggesting that regional differences should be considered when making dietary recommendations.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
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
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
Immediately after graduation, they were headed for Lackland Air Force Base for basic training, and then they would use the GI Bill for college.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
“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
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
A GI’s fiancee resents his marriage of convenience to a buddy’s English girlfriend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2020
If the GI's step in, that will have to stop—which means we'll show a loss heavy enough to put us out.
From A Spaceship Named McGuire by Randall Garrett
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
As we know, many children of Vietnamese women and American GIs did not get evacuated, and they were not killed by the victors.
From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2025
They even had GIs tending to flowers around some of the barracks and some doing the same kinds of details they would have been doing back in Devens or any stateside base.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
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