Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leather sandals for children, with a ball of bubble gum fitted into the uppers, were offered for sale in Washington...
Each day when school let out, the boys & girls would stop by his stand. Sometimes he gave them bananas and sometimes a nickel for bubble gum. Then he would ask them all about school and what they wanted to do when they grew up. Charley told his friends that he was going to leave a fortune to the kids. "They'll remember old Charley," he used...
...Gum, Chum. In the schools, especially, new impulses were shaking old Japanese ways. Boys & girls were now studying together where before the war they had been strictly segregated. With the new freedom, they were voicing their own opinions, instead of dutifully doing what their elders bade them...
...high-school faculties, still dubious about mixed classes, are trying to let students make their own decisions-even to chewing gum. One teacher, Tadao Naka-nami, caught a boy chewing gum and bawled him out. The student fired back: "In America the students chew gum." Stymied, the teacher put the issue up to class debate: Was it proper to chew gum in school even if Americans did so? The class long and earnestly debated the issue, then decided it was wrong, ordered the offending boy to apologize...
Every set went to the varsity, and Coach Barnaby was even able to test his doubles second-stringers without any ill-effects. About all BU got out of the afternoon were the oranges, gum, and sugar tablets provided by the Harvard managers after each match was over...