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
Perhaps that is simply your doctor assessing your risk for GI disorders before prescription, or maybe they take you off the drug for a few months to see if symptoms subside.
From Slate ● Mar. 22, 2026
He thought of Emo then, always with a GI haircut.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
“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
Once in a while the GI's would get binoculars on them but they couldn't see any more details.
From The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J. Ruppelt
In theory, the law was “colorblind,” offering the same educational support to Black GIs as to white GIs.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026
The German bases were the largest peacetime foreign deployment of American troops abroad, said Thomas Maulucci, history professor at the University of Connecticut who co-edited a book about American GIs in Germany.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 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
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
