Word: batch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loaded with cases of soda pop. The other had a hole in it. The passengers prayed; Captain E. M. Nicol radioed the U.S. Coast Guard. Almost five days later, the Pasado was towed into Honolulu. As she approached the harbor the stove blew up and splashed its soggy batch of pancakes against the overhead...
...three-hour penicillin schedule. His fever promptly dropped, and he, too, began to beg to get out. But Strep throats are tricky things, and Stillman care is cautions. Smith stayed in the small respiratory ward three weeks; the first week was the best. He discovered a batch of jig-saw puzzles thoughtfully placed on a shelf in the ward, and completed the lot, though all were marked with "seven damn pieces missing" or similar discouraging comments...
...Coach Dolph Samborski hasn't lost much sleep in deciding who's going to play in the outfield. The decision is only in choosing the best men from a talented batch...
Various student organizations offered to help the State Department clean house, and the Harvard National Student Association delegation took on a batch of about 5000 of the letters, coding them by sex, age and interests of sonders; during the process some of the sorters abstracted many of the better letters to follow up on their...
Frequently enclosed in the letters are photographs of the writers and their families; the ex-submariner sent along pictures of all his brothers and sisters and a flock of fiends. The original batch of letters also included a number of apparently well-fed blondes, many stating that "my friends say I am very pretty." A serious paper shortage has made ordinary writing stationery nearly unavailable, especially in Eastern Germany, and the letters frequently arrive written on the backs of carefully folded military maps dating from the Russian campaign or even on wallpaper...