Word: along
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the Freshman team goes blithely along hanging up an enviable record of defeats which is currently matched only by the doctors at Johns Hopkins who don't even charge gate receipts. And who apparently don't play much football...
...office when there is too much type set up, the least important is cut and not printed. That is called "overset." It generally consists of a jumble of unrelated paragraphs which have not much to say for themselves anyway. They never agree with any policy and the stories get along perfectly well without them...
What Franklin Roosevelt saw, as he drove in an open car along the pack-jammed waterfront, was part of the 16 mi. highway that shoots north along the sandy shore past the 1933 Fairsite, Soldier Field, Field Museum and Grant Park, juts first right then left and north again to cross the Chicago River and the Ogden Slip with the Tribune Tower looming high on the left,* keeps on to wind around swank Gold Coast's apartments and the Drake Hotel, then north once more on the express highway of Lake Shore Drive. It was at the Chicago River...
...first partner was a truant officer. A poverty-stricken boy from Manhattan's East Side, Ben at the age of ten worked up a thriving trade in spoiled pineapples which he bought in bulk at extremely cheap prices (sometimes $5 for a shipload) and sold by pushcart along the docks. By the time he was 13 he had $5,300, spent it all buying his parents a home. Then he noticed that Jewish onion buyers were having a horrid time in the onion market on Pier 17. Onion salesmen were mostly boisterous Irishmen who loved to pull down Jewish...
...Victoria, which since publication ten weeks ago has been filling reader "voids" at the rate of 14,000 per week.* Offered U. S. readers last week, So Great a Man was expected to do as well. U. S. booksellers, acting on advance tips that the book "will suck readers along from page to page as did Anthony Adverse or Gone With The Wind," reported themselves well prepared to cope with the first inrush of readers. First-line critics, notoriously disquieted by suctions, headed for the hills...