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...only I could find one," Sam said, mouth full of a homebaked fig wheat cookie Deirdre had slipped...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/1/1970 | See Source »

...Sure." If her husband didn't like dates, then as a proper wife she would not of course grow dates. Merilee and Stefan lifted instead a fig tree...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/1/1970 | See Source »

...Girl growling and Stefan sad. Merilee a proper wife holding her tongue. Thinking, " If there's no money, then we'll have no fig trees. Our ancestors crossed the Donner and left Tulsa in their Conestoga wagons to escape just such old-fashioned logical connectors." And if Sam Bollo thought he was the hot shit who could deny her what she had always wanted just through some old cranky Philadelphia logic, then...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/1/1970 | See Source »

...fire Patty Miller, a blonde secretary whom Levin later made the hotel's administrative assistant. (Another secretary, Carol Parks, became Levin-Townsend treasurer, but was turned out in the cold last week with Levin.) Levin-Townsend even played angel to two Broadway musicals, Maggie Flynn and The Fig Leaves Are Falling-both resounding flops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entrepreneurs: A Stunning Coup | 2/2/1970 | See Source »

...relevance" means something deeper than "newspaperliness," then it must mean potential for understanding and control over life. In this sense, a relevant arithmetic problem in an eighth grade text might be: The curves in Fig. 6.48 give the values of apparent crater diameter and depth in dry soil as a function of explosion veiled. Given a 20 KT surface burst over sandstone, find the crater dimensions. (Effects of Nuclear Weapons, 4th ed.) Such a reorientation in education might alter the balance of interest on the part of children away from TV or comics toward school...

Author: By Alexander Korns, | Title: In Education: Garbage, Trash, Junk | 12/8/1969 | See Source »

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