Word: hadn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old Donald Duggleby barely paused to say: "Pardon me, but you'll have to hurry because I've got to get along. Problem? The main problem of everybody is to catch up. We're all trying to get where we would have been if there hadn't been a war." In getting there, many had unabashedly criticized textbooks and frightened incompetent instructors. One awed chemistry teacher at U.C.L.A. reported that they had raised his class average 20% over previous years...
...Dutch couple. For two days they were feared lost at sea. At last the word came. Jacquet had won, landing near Ghent, Belgium, after a flight of 430 kilometers (less than half the record distance). As for the Boesmans, they had landed only 50 miles from Le Mans. They hadn't bothered to telegraph, they explained, because they couldn't speak French...
Thirst for Knowledge. Reported missing by worried Harvard University authorities, Student Samuel E. Stuart, 25, was discovered in New York on the ninth day, explained that he had been so engrossed in studies that he really hadn't realized how long he had been away until he read all about it in a newspaper...
...pretty much the same program that New York audiences have been discussing for six years. Success in the big time is a personal triumph for Author's persevering 32-year-old producer, Martin Stone, who claims: "This thing would have died a long time ago if I hadn't been an amateur...
Back in Manhattan after a tour, Actor Conrad Nagel reported on the state of "the road" in the U.S. theater. "From the actor's point of view," said he, "the trouble with the road is that in most of the hotels we encountered . . . they hadn't changed the sheets on the beds since...