Word: bellowses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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As John Steuart Curry's powder-puff oil, Hitting the Line, showed, football is a mighty hard sport to picture convincingly. Prizefighting, where the action is limited to two men under brilliant light, does better, and the best painting in the show was George Bellows' classic one of...
Down with Politicians. But Leopold's life is complicated by the political intrigues that zigzag through the town. When a loudmouthed rascal who has found refuge in the local branch of the Communist Party denounces him as a protector of a fascist, Leopold is thrown into jail. There he...
In small (pop. 5,000) Bellows Falls, Vt., bankers mulled over an exciting proposition. As usually happens when any portentous matter confronts the upper Connecticut River Valley, the bankers had called in Eugene Cray, 61, from North Walpole (pop. 1,500) on the New Hampshire side of the river.
At the time, he was working with Columbia's late Psychologist Edward L. Thorndike, who had done quite a bit of counting himself. By combing through thousands of pages of English, Thorndike had picked out the 10,000 words most frequently used. His Teacher's Word Book revolutionized...