Word: downe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The bare little church, with its severe, varnished interior, its six plain glass windows, its 17 pews, was jammed, as always, with Americans and their children in their Sunday best. The tall, 68-year-old pastor took his text from Matthew 2:1: "Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem...
*One of the decisive battles of the Revolution. Burgoyne had come south from Canada in the summer of 1777 in an attempt to isolate New England by occupying the Hudson Valley; his 5,000 British and German troops were badly mauled by Americans led by Benedict Arnold on Oct. 7...
Undercover History. Phil Jessup's latest excursion into public life was certain to enter him in his colleagues' history books. Hardly had he settled down in his small paneled office in the State Department before he was making undercover trips to Manhattan to work out the settlement of...
In the second half, the Varsity settled down after trailing, 24 to 16, at the half; the team began to work the ball into Rockwell, and with one-and-a-half minutes to go, it led, 53 to 50. During the remainder of the game, Springfield dropped in seven free...
Last week when I opened the door to go into F. A. O. Schwarz, I was nearly struck down by a runaway Yellow Tornado Racer. As the thing tore out for the gutter, it was followed by a saleslady who later explained that she had been demonstrating the racer (it...