Word: among
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Among the 19-year-olds was Guy Hawkins, who had been in the first grade for eight years. One evening, when Teacher Stuart was working late at the school, Guy came back. "I aim to whip you," he said. "It's the same place where I whipped your sister." The two men fought, but this time it was Guy who took the beating...
Last week, it looked as if the British gamble was ready to pay off. At Farnborough Airfield, in Hampshire, Britain's aircraft builders showed 180,000 spectators a fleet of sleek new commercial planes that were well ahead of anything the U.S. has in the air or abuilding. Among the 59 new fighter and commercial planes were the world's first jet transport plane, the first turbo-prop (turbine-driven propeller) transport, and other turbo-prop transports ranging from feeder planes to ocean hopping giants. As an added fillip, there was the Brabazon, the world's largest...
...need to know how much of each kind of employment and production is needed, and how expenditures need to be allocated among various groups of consumer goods and investment categories," he said...
...enough to determine a good set of goals for the economy. In a democracy of free people the citizens determine such goals. In so doing they taken into account factors such as the amount and kind of work they prefer and standards of health and diet prevalent among different working groups...
...Circle Sound, Inc. has poked and pulled more than 20 albums and many singles into circulation, as well as compiling a monumental 45-record Jelly Roll Morton cycle which is available in some libraries or at a fine price to the more opulent admirers of Mr. Morton. Among the best albums presented are by two bands which appeared on the "This Is Jazz" program in 1947-one led by Kid Ory, the other by Wild Bill Davison...