Word: homework
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Homework has run Victor A. Conrad, Ward Research associate in Climatology, afoul of the Cambridge housing ordinances...
Classes will meet daily, except Saturday, from 9 to 3 p.m. in Radcliffe's Long-fellow Hall. Homework will run about two hours...
...support his new wife by drumming Latin into boys' heads. Few came to Samuel Johnson's school; one of those who did was 19-year-old David Garrick, son of a shabby-genteel army captain. Davy was a poor scholar, preferring to do impersonations rather than homework ; he would even listen at the keyhole of the Johnson bedroom and later mimic the schoolmaster's clumsy gallantries. When the school collapsed for lack of students, the awkward Johnson and the terrier-like Garrick set off for London together, a few coins between them, to make their fortunes...
...Homework. In Tyler, Tex., the National Board of Fire Underwriters finished a three-week inspection tour of the city, pointed out that the main fire station was a firetrap...
Either Secretary Tobin had not done his homework on the law in the case or he did not understand what he had studied, but he tried again. No President, he said, would ever permit the economy of the U.S. "to be brought to its knees in a great national emergency." That didn't have to mean an injunction, he said. "He [the President] might handle it differently." But Tobin could not think what a "different" method might...