Word: chores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Since no legal statute prohibits and no moral sense prevents the exploitation of the death of my son in the Spanish war for the publicity purposes of subversive politics, my patriotic chore prompts me to proclaim this 'memorial meeting' for what it is-more Moscow...
...chairman of the House Labor Committee, amiable Mary ("Aunt Mary") Norton has had a difficult and busy year. She inherited her job when Massachusetts' able young Bill Connery died a year ago. With it, she inherited the thankless chore of trying to push a stiff Wages-&-Hours Bill past an unsympathetic Rules Committee and then through a recalcitrant House. Mary Norton did the best she could. This was to get a majority (218) of House members to sign a petition discharging the committee and bringing the bill to the floor last December, where Aunt Mary's colleagues upset...
Last week, in Chicago's vast Coliseum, the American Bowling Congress was rolling into the sixth week of its 1938 session -to determine five-man, two-man and individual U. S. bowling champions. The local "booster" teams had already accomplished their chore of breaking in the brand-new, slippery alleys, which Grade A bowlers dislike. Some 19,000 approved A.B.C. "keglers,"* from every State in the U. S., had bowled their required three games (in each event entered), had posted their scores and gone home. No one had bowled a perfect game.† No team had come within...
With a championship thus placed in his grasp, Boxer Armstrong, whose deadly knockout record has already convinced most sportswriters that he is a miniature Joe Louis, last week proceeded to perform that chore. Armstrong and Sarron larruped each other fiercely, if without notable boxing skill, for five rounds. Then Sarron's legs began to buckle. In the sixth, as Sarron folded his arms helplessly over his hairy chest, Armstrong pummeled him harder than ever. Near the end of the round, Armstrong suddenly let loose a long, looping right to the jaw, and Sarron, for the first time...
During the school year, the largest number of jobs is found in restaurants, with typing jobs, entertainment positions, chore work, jobs as psychological subjects, chauffeur posts, delivery work, and window washing, following in order. Odd jobs always turn up, such as teaching chess, modelling for artists, or directing traffic...