Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago was the white hope of good Republicans everywhere is now living quietly on his chicken farm in the country. "Mrs Landon is doing pretty well with her chickens, selling six or-seven dozen eggs a day." But one morning the man who wanted to be President could not find an egg in the house for an early breakfast...
...This time, in the mild spring weather, there was no danger of freezing, but lines of people, some of them women with children in their arms, lengthened outside the city's relief stations. At two stations, applicants sat down, refused to budge for two days. At another a dozen or so formed a brass band to entertain their fellows. Said welfare office Supervisor Delia Milder: "They are sort of desperate now. They have been very tense...
...group of white men and women in the South and brilliant Negroes everywhere for scholarship and creative work. This year it granted $85,000 to 18 whites, 34 Negroes. The Negro fellows, picked from 400 applicants, are expected to make important contributions to U. S. culture in a dozen fields of knowledge...
Last week in Philadelphia some 50 members of the Kingsley Club rose to their feet, spoke their pieces. Half-a-dozen took an extreme test before a radio microphone. Not a speaker faltered. Recited Philip Fairstone, 15, a high-school student: / try the teacher's patience, I start the pupils roaring; I break up the monotony Of classes that are boring. I am a stammerer...
Although other House sports have been called off this week in favor of Divisionals, about a dozen intramural crews take to the river daily in preparation for the annual House regatta scheduled for next Wednesday...