Word: awayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these battle cries are not loud enough. A vital starting point for attack upon secondary schools are the college board exams. Every evil of the lower learning leads up to, and away from, these. The college boards condition the kind and amount of content taught in the schools, and thus mold the type of boy which the colleges for the most part receive. And the result is that the schools teach little useful for the college course, and only what the board exams will test. It is a bizarre fact that because of the board exams much of what could...
That chapter closes when engineers blow up the levee to save New Orleans, and the convict, the woman and the baby have to move on again. Six weeks from the time he had been washed away, the convict gets back to the place where his journey began. "Yonder's your boat, and here's the woman," he tells the deputy sheriff. "But I never did find that bastard on the cotton house." The deputy and the warden repeating "Them convicts," slap another ten years on his sentence for trying to escape...
Background. William Faulkner's great-grandfather entered northern Mississippi, so the legend has it, at the age of ten. Colonel William Falkner (the name is spelled both ways) ran away from his home at Middleton, Tenn., walked several hundred miles to Ripley, near Oxford, to stay with an uncle. He found the uncle in jail, charged with murder. He sat down on the courthouse steps and "swore he would some day build a railroad along the route he had walked...
...social history is this: Jefferson's men & women of the Civil War generation were strongwilled, ambitious, quixotic, ruined not so much by the War as by their own feudal code; their sons tended to linger long over the achievements of their ancestors as wealth and position slipped away; members of the third generation turned savagely on their parents when they found that the traditions they inherited did not square with the bitter actualities of life. So his books are full of melodrama: the last descendants of old families lie awake in crumbling houses; pompous parents like Mr. Compson deliver...
...Crimson cagers packed away their uniforms after the Dartmouth game until the end of the examination period, but all was not quiet along the E. I. L. basketball front over the last weekend...