Word: barnful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...relaxed, looked up from the mass of unanswered registration questions and allowed his eyes to adjust for more distant vision. He gazed again at the stained glass windows of the Gothic Barn, and then lowered his eyes to the endless sea of registrants around him. Vag had never registered in Summer School before, and the adult multitude dotted here and there with gray-haired ladies seemed rather odd to him. Schoolteachers, he told himself. Uncounted multitudes of more schoolteachers as far as the eye could reach, with vistas of more schoolteachers beyond, to the very confines of Memorial Hall. There...
...credit, but in some cases I did. Where I didn't print them identically I would read them and summarize them." His paraphrasing technique was simple: "What the [Chicago] Tribune generally reports in a dignified way, the X-Ray 'slams 'em out' in old plant, barn lot, hill billy or whatever you want to call it lan guage." An ex-serviceman, he deeply re sented the Government's slur on his patriotism. ''Give me an airplane loaded with bombs." he challenged, "and I'll fly over Tokyo and set that Sun that...
...fill out the wekend, the Freshman will have the crew regatta, the Varsity baseball double-header with Cornell, the Heptagonals, or the Freshman ball game with Exeter for Saturday afternoon, and a barn dance in Mem Hall that night...
Many an old peasant improved Savchenko's script by offering him a real sequence from the last war. One, after watching for some time, politely informed the director that the sequence was not quite correct. He said tomatoes now grew where his barn had been, that the Germans had taken his cow and knocked out his wife with a rifle butt. In other particulars, however, the scene was faithful. Then he added: "We killed the German near the tree over there." There is no more make-believe in Svirki. The Germans took it again last year. Now everyone...
Last week Kennedy's horses still ambled up to the barn window, idly stared inside, switched their tails. But President Kennedy was plenty excited. He had just learned that the Defense Plant Corp. had okayed an $800,000-odd contract for factory-sized additions to his barn. With this money-plus all or part of the 30% cash advance on his Army contract-Kennedy hopes that by Sept. 1, the first Globe-built Beechcraft will roll out the factory doors...