Word: aren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Illustrator Norman Rockwell roundly endorsed the suggestion of Massachusetts' Representative Edith Nourse Rogers that U.S. paper money be printed in different colors as an aid in distinguishing one denomination from another. The Treasury's response was guarded. Said one official: "It's questionable whether there aren't more color-blind people in this country than there are illiterates...
...Portland do not have the finances, the population or the parks to make the grade. (West Coasters point out that the St. Louis Browns have played to crowds as small as 478.) Last week Babe Ruth dropped into Los Angeles, threw more cold water on the western dream: "There aren't even enough top baseball players for two major leagues...
July 16-The Christian Century's Editor Paul Hutchinson wrote: "There seem to be a lot of invitations to free trips overseas floating about these days. . . . [One] was on the Washington embassy stationery of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. . . . Reports from such trips ' aren't worth the paper they are printed on. . . ." Dr. Hutchinson declined...
TIME, July 28 says Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis "are making a movie for Paramount." Paramount is making a picture with the background of West Point, tentatively entitled The Long Grey Line, but Blanchard and Davis aren't in it. I believe they are in Hollywood working for another producer. They're good guys and we wish them luck...
What do you find wrong with present-day writing-or good about it? Why aren't we getting more significant writing...