Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Four dozen ten-inch sausages will be consumed in the current Dramatic Club production, "cannibal Carnival." High-grade frankforts will be eaten, while poor-grade dogs will be thrown. Long loaves of stale French bread with a few fresh loaves interspersed will supplement the degmeat...
...lend weight to arguments on the Senate side. Two days after its release, the two tax committees met for the seventh time, settled down to thresh the matter out behind closed doors. The doors remained closed for six hours except when they opened briefly to let out the dozen or so non-legislative tax experts who normally attend all such committee conclaves, let out two hungry Senators for a hasty bite, let out the House conferees for a brief separate meeting, then readmitted them. When the whole committee finally emerged, the conferees announced, with delighted beams, that after nearly...
Sholtz campaign schedule calls for half-a-dozen speeches a day-two in the morning, one at lunch, two in the afternoon, one at night. A sound truck with a 25-record library precedes him. Another accompanies him to broadcast his speech which lasts only 40 minutes, is always the same. Each of the three candidates by the time they stop touring next week, will have covered all the towns with over 500 population, in Florida's 67 counties. Driving between towns, diligent Candidate Sholtz makes a practice of stopping at every filling station, general store, to distribute...
...years Dr. Thurstone, like a biochemist isolating vitamins, has been cracking up the human mind into its primary functions. He started with a tentative list of about half-a-dozen theoretical functions, created a set of 56 tests to probe them. Samples: ¶ Synonyms, anagrams-to test ability in the use of words. ¶ Disarranged true & false sentences: "large is an beast ant a"-to test perception. ¶ Tests of verbal reasoning: All pigs can fly, and all elephants are pigs, therefore all elephants can fly. Answer: The argument is correct...
...Welfare Recovery knows several. Founded more than three years ago, this committee has sponsored Loyalty Days every autumn with the object of filling U. S. Catholic, Jewish and Protestant churches. Last week, in collaboration with the Golden Rule Foundation, it launched a series of Brotherhood Days in a dozen cities. For the first time, the committee's efforts got some enthusiastic publicity. William Randolph Hearst signed an editorial denouncing atheism, and in Manhattan, where the first Brotherhood Day mass meeting was to be held in an armory, the New York Journal and American told how, inspired by this "powerful...