Word: caught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been caught stealing books from the new library, however. The penalties are severe: a student nabbed as he was trying to sucak a book out of Widener a few years ago was ousted from his House and only narrowly escaped probation...
...school boards of King George and Gloucester Counties in eastern Virginia were caught on the horns of two constitutions. Virginia's constitution requires that white and Negro schools be separate; the U.S. Constitution, as interpreted by the Supreme Court, requires them at least to be equal in facilities, courses of instruction and quality of teachers. But in King George and Gloucester Counties, as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People pointed out, the counties' separate schools were as different as black & white...
...Roxy), Berle will work for nothing rather than go without an audience. He has entertained in hotel lobbies, restaurants, railroad stations, buses and cabs. (To a convulsed cab driver on whom he worked during a recent ride, Milton cracked: "You think this is funny? You should've caught me last Tuesday in a cab on 57th Street...
...short stories, A Corner of the World, has the topical interest of current news dispatches from Asia. Only the first story has a China setting (Calcutta, Saigon, Manila and Macao are backdrops for the others), but all of them have a common theme: the tragedy of a billion people caught in the tidal wave of change sweeping the Far East. Complementing this theme is the guilt-edged confusion with which Shaplen's white men duck the vast problem instead of facing...
...fiendish field conditions in the first half especially troubled the Varsity, and at the quarter. Springfield held a 2 to 0 lead. But the team caught on, and by the half had drawn up to even the score...