Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great literature almost as soon as they could read. But by the very nature of the modern reader, top writers are often automatically ruled out. "Fine literature, even such as is consciously written for children, cannot be created out of a meager vocabulary, much of it proper names (Mary, Jack) or names of common objects (chair, train, dish), especially if the author has to produce lessons in which each new word must be repeated ten times, and words learned in a previous lesson, five . . . Discriminating writers are usually quite unable to play this sort of game, so the modern readers...
Jordan also commented that end Tom Hooper should be ready by Saturday. Meanwhile Jack Evjy filled in for Hooper who had a light workout despite his pulled leg muscle...
When Charles II visited his wealthy mistress, Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland, and surprised her in bed with bone-poor Ensign Jack Churchill, the monarch kept his head and, addressing the young man, said: "You are a rascal, but I forgive you, for you do it to get your bread." How right Charles was may be seen by the fact that after a year or two of bundling with Barbara and shrewdly investing her handouts, Churchill had founded the fortunes of his family and embarked on one of the most glamorous careers in British history...
Whatsoever a Man Soweth. Near Mineral Point, Wis., love-struck Farmer Jack Kenyon Jr. doctored parts of a quarter-mile stretch of hillside with fertilizer, persuaded his beloved to elope with him after the hill turned green with the 300-ft. letters: JULIE...
...travel to the Coast Guard Academy at New London, Conn., this weekend, for the Danmark Trophy meet. Owens doubts whether the team can win the trophy, and expects either Brown or the Coast Guard to take it. The sailors placed third out of four teams in last week's Jack Wood Trophy race...