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
I log in to GI, a deck called “How Boundaries Build Safety.”
From Slate ● May 10, 2026
“Athletes knew they needed to have carbohydrates, but there was also that risk of getting GI issues.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
The GI Bill and the industrial boom drove the greatest project of mass education and mass consumption in world history.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2026
“It’s split right down the middle,” said Major Sanderson, who had laced his lumpy GI shoes for the occasion and had slicked his charcoal-dull hair down with some stiffening and redolent tonic.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
“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
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 Garrett, Randall
In Robert Capa’s photograph of GIs on the USS Samuel Chase just before the D-Day landings, soldiers play craps with French banknotes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
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
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
GIs came tumbling through the doors and out into the hot Vietnamese sun.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
