Word: chores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Capitol Hill for a congressional once-over went smiling Judge James P. McGranery of Philadelphia, Attorney-General designate, the man picked by Harry Truman to do the promised house-cleaning chore that Newbold Morris and Howard McGrath fouled up so spectacularly last month. McGranery's performance before the Senate Judiciary Committee left his inquisitors, friend & foe alike, mostly unsmiling...
Undefeated Leverett picked up its sixth consecutive win in softball by beating Eliot, 10 to 3. Lou Chizer handled the pitching chore for the Bunnies...
...preoccupation with "the family" is fully as great as with world affairs, and she stays in constant and benign communication with all its branches. The chore involves writing and sending gifts to five children, 18 grandchildren, two greatgrandchildren, assorted cousins and nine daughters-in-law and ex-daughters-in-law. But by awesome attention to dates, awesome budgeting of her time, and by sitting up in bed to write letters almost nightly before going to sleep, she manages it, no matter how busy her life...
Never Make It a Chore. Quit reading when you're tired or your attention begins to wander. If a story bores you, stop it and start another. There's no harm done if you skip a few evenings...
...just a routine chore that young (29) Mathematician Derek Price intended to do in the Peterhouse Library at the University of Cambridge. All he wanted was a look at a certain 14th century manuscript in connection with a history he was writing on scientific instruments. But as soon as the manuscript was brought to him one day last December, Price felt his pulse begin to quicken. By last week, medievalists all over Britain were talking about the mystery unearthed by Price: Who was the author...