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Word: adds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Describing her daughter in detail, she asked that anyone having the slightest clue to her probable whereabouts contact the family. Her husband and another daughter, Lucy, 15, who fled through a muddy field when Mary was seized, stood beside her. Brown spoke briefly, saying that he had nothing to add to his wife's words "except that I want her back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 12/2/1938 | See Source »

Could you, when referring to California as the Screwy State, just add "Omitting San Francisco"? Really, all the nutty ideas and religions, etc. have all originated in Southern California and we in San Francisco are disgusted and ashamed ourselves. Possibly you are smart enough to know this and take it for granted others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 28, 1938 | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...Gulick's chief recommendation: let high schools add two years to their course for pupils who are not going to college; let elementary schools end at the sixth grade, let the pattern of elementary, junior and senior high-school education be 6-4-4, 6-5-3, or 6-3-5. In the first six years of secondary schools youngsters should get a general education in science, human relations, world history, community life, mathematics, the arts. In the last two years boys & girls aged 18 to 20 should be given general vocational training ("sound general knowledge undergirding a family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: One for the Money | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...hope of cutting down automobile fatalities on the nation's highways, the Yale Institute of Human Relations is backing Harry De Silva, former head of the Harvard Traffic Bureau, in an attempt to add further tests to the state driving examinations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News From Other College Campuses | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...chains claim that the real reason behind Wright Patman's proposal is the bitter hatred which chain-store efficiency breeds in competitive wholesalers and independents. This efficiency rests upon two prime pegs - ability to buy in huge quantities and elimination of numerous wholesale and other middleman functions which add markups to food costs. Such benefits can be obtained by independents through use of supermarkets or of voluntary chains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Colorado No | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

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