Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only want," said the king, "a little bit of butter for my bread...
...something about them. The project examined three schools: P.S. 120 for boys, P.S. 101 for girls, and P.S. 10, a co-ed elementary school. It found class after class of sullen and wretched children. There were boys who stole and "unmanageable girls" who screamed and shrieked and bit their neighbors. In one school, one out of five boys had been in court for truancy or delinquency...
...said E. M. Forster, with "inspired breathlessness.") Unlike so many American critics who seem intent on smothering their readers with erudition, Virginia Woolf wrote as if she were conversing with friends. To read her essays at one sitting is too much of a good thing; they then seem a bit boneless and soft, their smoothness too consistently stylized. But taken one at a time, as they were written to be read, they are rare works of art, and establish one of the most pleasurable of human relationships: warm kinship between civilized writer and reader...
...college boys, at McGill University around 1875, who first made hockey a game-something with rules and a bit of science about it. The game has come a long way since then, and not always uphill. Last week in New Haven, 1,200 spectators watched a game called ice hockey, and played by college boys, that looked more like assault & battery...
...from Europe, had slipped and fallen, duff-first, on the ice. Until that night last week, peerless Barbara Ann had never taken a tumble in public. She picked herself up, got an ovation from the crowd, skated away. Said the Ottawa Journal soothingly: "It didn't matter a bit...