Word: backed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Back to the Hills. It did not take Sancton long to get fed up with "the rush, the noise and the grime" of city life. After a wartime hitch in the Royal Canadian Air Force, Sancton went back to the Gazette's staff in 1945 long enough to start a campaign to "bring over the war brides quicker." Soon after his own English war bride, Mary, joined him, Sancton heard that Octogenarian John C. Holland, owner and editor of the Stanstead Journal, was ailing and willing to sell his paper. Sancton quit his job and bought...
...like going back into another century when John and Mary explored the faded old white house where the handset, rundown Journal had been published for decades. Blocking their way was a weird jumble of cardboard boxes, auto parts, dried nuts, empty jars, tin cans and old metal. In a stack of unopened letters...
Sanctons found several hundred dollars in checks, money orders and cash. Mary, who moved in as circulation manager, found only 145 paid-up subscriptions; others were in arrears as far back as 1896. (Wrote one delinquent: "I'd been pleading with old John for half a century to stop sending me his paper...
Manteno. Others will have to wait at least a year until the treatments are ready for the market. Meanwhile, the two researchers are back in their laboratories, hoping to prove that their treatments will knock out other epidemic diseases such as cholera and dysentery...
...Josiah Holbrook of Connecticut had no notion at first that his scheme would catch on as it did. Back in 1826, he and his friends were only a handful, but they were serious about the idea that the nation's new common schools belonged to the public and that the public should be concerned to make them better. They organized the American Lyceum to help set standards, soon had members all over the U.S. For more than a decade these members made speeches, wrote articles, held public meetings. They got results: better training for teachers, the formation of state...