Word: ll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this spring. Then Gil began to feel poorly; his heart was giving out. He took to bed. Day after day he lay there, looking out the cabin's dusty window. "Dogwood's late this year," he kept saying to Maggie. "Don't know as I'll live...
Farmer Hans Schweiger explained his position last week: "My farm will yield 6,000 marks this year, from which I'll have to deduct 500 for taxes, 500 for the blacksmith, and 1,000 for seed and fertilizer. That leaves me 4,000. A pair of shoes for my wife costs me 800. I consider myself lucky when some city fellow brings me a few nails or machinery to trade in for bread and potatoes." Said Farmer Friedrich Sticht grimly: "Before the farmers starve, every single city dweller will starve first...
...wonderful chance for us. We don't expect anything like you see in the movies. We just want a home and enough to live on in pleasant surroundings." Added Mrs. Dent: "It will be wonderful for the child too. All that eggs and butter. I hope we'll be able...
...became an assistant and Tutor in English and attained the rank of full professor last December. The author of numerous books on Chaucer, his specialty, and dissertations on the proverb as an expression of folk thought, Professor Whiting looks on his lone venture in anthology work with horror. "I'll never do anything like that again," he says of his co-editorship of the College Survey of English Literature, which includes most of the reading for English...
Connelly, bald, portly and more solemn with the years, is very serious about what he considers an exciting chance to develop the "theater as a social force" at Yale. Says he: "I hope my students won't be just writing for Broadway. I hope they'll be writing for the world...