Word: homework
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people, anxious to see exactly where Son John or Cousin Bill is stationed, rushed to buy maps. They needed the maps in their homework. For while cables and radio brought news of the invasion in staggering quantity, an even greater amount of a different kind of news was pouring into the U.S. in the millions of letters from servicemen on all fronts...
...Bulletin of Robert and William L. McLean Jr. was typically sedate about it all. In its advertising it stuck to its homework: "In Philadelphia Nearly Everybody Reads the Bulletin." But proudly, under its Old English masthead, the 96-year-old Bulletin recorded: "February circulation 657,440 copies daily." Hearstmen would give no figure beyond that of the last available Audit Bureau of Circulation. It showed the Journal-American with a quarter-year average (July...
...Homework. In Topeka, Kans., Dog-catcher Arland Smith, asked by Washburn University biologists for some fleas, hunted and hunted in his dog pound, found not a one, went home and searched...
...spare moments between the hottest fighting on Guadalcanal, about 40 U.S. servicemen swatted mosquitoes, sweated over correspondence-school lessons. When they had done their homework, they mailed it to the University of Hawaii, a branch of Usafi (U.S. Armed Forces Institute). Last week the number of fighting men taking correspondence courses from Usafi was not far from 30,000, more than half of them overseas...
...Jersey's Governor Edison wanted a man capable of such "a vigorous leadership, as befits these new times." There was little in the record to suggest that Studebaker would be more radical than his dictum that one hour homework nightly is plenty for children. It looked as though Governor Edison would get the man he wanted - if Boss Hague could not prevent...