Word: jr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...optimist has carried me away and led me to overshoot the mark. The last paragraph is not true. The man who politely but firmly declines to sit in an old-fashioned chair to learn: is he worth educating? Can he be educated? Who dare answer? Frederic Cunningham, Jr...
WILBUR LA ROE JR...
...betray a pitiful lack of experience when you tag as sugary and overripe prose [Novelist A. B. Guthrie Jr.'s], "And it came on toward night, and the sun was down and the fire of its setting dead, and the coyotes were beginning to yip on the hills and the stars to light up, and there was the good smell of aspen smoke in his nose" [TIME...
...extent of their clientele. One letter from the Belgian Congo thanks Peter Limmer for his excellent repair work on an old pair of Limmer shoes, and further acknowledges receipt of a new pair of white ones. When "some Maharaja was in Boston for a lung operation," states Peter Jr. with understandable pride, "we made him a pair of shoes with gold buckles and a pair with felt soles, and a few others...
...fell down, I'd have to wait till the snow melted to get up." Mama stills skis a bit. Francis and Peter are the athletes in the family. Francis spent several of his war years in the Camp Hale ski troops where Torger Tokle was his platoon sergeant. Peter Jr., however, chose the Air Corps where he was a crew chief on a B-29. Both the boys look forward to a break in the business rush when they can dash up to Tuckerman's or Cannon Mountain with the Brockton Ski Club...