Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advocate of turn about is fair play, but I can't see why several dozen Harvard boys should be so widely and sensationally denounced for an outrage which the 'valiant defenders of democracy' have been committing' with perfect liberty during the past 20 years.... Speaking with all possible impartiality, I can't fail to see in the melodramatic charges of legion men a certain psychological trait, commonly found in the 'bully' type. Here's my proof...
...Cooper River, wrecked more ancient hovels of the poor, flattened many a garden of the native gentry and rich Yankee interlopers. Sadly battered but not ruined were palmettos, oaks in famed White Point Gardens, known to millions of tourists. A third blow skirted Charleston proper, whisked off a dozen cottages on Sullivan's Island, where Fort Moultrie (four times rebuilt) has stood since 1776. Untouched by wind was neighboring Fort Sumter, where the first engagement of the Civil War was fought...
...stuck to his golf ball-in Los Angeles and Phoenix, Kansas City and St. Louis, Milwaukee and Chicago, Philadelphia and New York. He had traveled 3,000 miles by plane, had tramped 155 miles on foot, had taken 2,860 strokes on 600 holes, had worn out two dozen pair of gloves, had not lost a ball. His lowest score was 77, his highest...
...away with a few Marin tricks of shorthand with unusual impunity. Most critics accounted his work more lively if not more accomplished than the watercolors which Dealer Walker hung up this week by 28-year-old, waggish Stuyvesant Van Veen. Typical of his dry, ingenious work were half-a-dozen "nocturnes"' of New England small towns, among them Peterborough Backstreet...
...selections has gone on ever since there has been a Pulitzer Prize, but that time reached a crescendo. Historians called The People's Choice inaccurate. Leftists said it was fascist and critics said its selection on literary grounds was preposterous. Some of the outcry arose because half-a-dozen better works of history were published in 1933 but most of it came from opposition to Mr. Agar's thesis-that democracy was a dismal failure...