Word: archly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week Richard (pronounced Ree-shar) put on his 12 Ibs. of shin & shoulder pads, ankle-length underwear, skates and stovepipe pants, skated onto the ice before Montreal's largest hockey crowd of the season (12,674). Once during the evening, against the arch-rival Toronto Maple Leafs, the crowds got what they came to see. There was a pass, a swift attack by Richard on the cage, a flick of his stick; and The Rocket had scored. The stands rang with cowbells, cheers and whistles...
Contrasting our democratic school system with the rigidly state-supervised European methods, President Conant stated, "Counselling and guidance in the high school years has been well said to be the keystone of the arch of our system of public schools...
...from school. Several thousands of dollars a year were refunded to parents of public-school children. Then, under a 1941 state law, $357.74 (for a half year) went to parents who sent their children to Roman Catholic schools. The amount was trifling, but the principle was vital to one Arch R. Everson, a townsman who is the paid secretary of a taxpayers' league. He won a judgement that the 1941 law was unconstitutional. By successive appeals the case reached the Supreme Court...
...same issue, I quote from the Books Department: "Erich Maria Remarque gave middle-agedly of his bnght-but-second-best in Arch of Triumph...
...Chicago, Colonel Robert R. McCormick's arch-Republican Tribune suggested a scheme to penalize states which will not let all their citizens vote...