Word: batch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small victories. It cured nine-year-old Billy of pyromania by letting him burn the rubbish each day, until gradually ("Aw, I don't wanna") he lost his interest in lighting fires. Another boy had a mania for stealing keys. So Mrs. Calabrese bought a whole batch of keys for Harold and gave him one whenever he deserved a reward. Now Harold has a pile of keys and has stopped stealing them...
...Haven Railroad has added something new this year to Yale game ticket-selling by buying a batch of tickets in the Yale section. The railroad will try to sell the tickets to its patrons, who will be able to buy admission and transportation to the game all at once...
...staff at Bleemfontein keeps in fairly close touch with its parent body at Cambridge. Two or three times a year the South African group sends here a large batch of photographs it has taken...
...nation's coal stockpile was down to 43 days' supply and dwindling steadily. That would not have been alarming if the coal was distributed properly, but it was not. A prize batch, 10 million tons, was piled in the idle steel industry's bins. The New York Central R.R. lopped 89 steam-powered trains from its schedule, had to cancel another 57 next day when the Interstate Commerce Commission ordered all railroads with low coal supplies to cut steam-locomotive passenger runs by 25%. "By the end of this week or next," said a U.S. Government coal...
Osmanski, after much experimenting early in the fall, chose to string along with a batch of sophomores up from an excellent freshman team. However, the second-year men (there will be approximately six of them in the starting lineup) have failed to live up to expectations, although their mistakes appear to have become less conspicuous each week...