Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rugby in America is much like English rugby, except for the informal, casual respect of the American college players. The object of the game is to score a goal," which consists of a "try"--like a touchdown in football--and a conversion after it. The try counts three points, and there conversion...
...been careful, as a Marxist, to say that capitalism had been good in the days when it succeeded. Failure, like poverty, had always been the Shavian crime. The only failure he seems to have been proud of was his own failure to earn more than ?6 by novels and casual writing before he was 40. To the hostile, Shaw's trotting to Moscow and his defense of tyrants seemed a mixture of cynicism, contemptible prudence, and an old mountebank's determination to keep in the limelight; a degeneration from the noble pages of The Intelligent Woman...
...Quite Horatio. Chrysler died in 1940, but not before Satevepost Writer Boyden Sparkes had taken down his story. Life of an American Workman is one of those personal-success books that has Made in U.S.A. stamped all over it. It has the casual, conversational tone of a front-porch chat and the fascination that clings to every true story about the boy who reached...
Teele divides the staff effected into three categories the over 2,000 faculty members, the more than 4,000 regular employees such as secretaries and dining hall help, and finally the approximately 3,000 "casual" employees of the University who may work, for example, in the H.A.A. ticket office just one or two days during an entire year...
...article was written because a young parent who uses the pseudonym John William Sperry† happened to get into casual conversation with an English teacher in a Midwestern town...