Word: mained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Technically, but not actually, Mr. Dewey was indeed jaywalking. Cameramen had asked him to walk across Owosso's Main Street; Mr. Dewey obliged; Owosso citizens goggled and traffic just naturally stopped...
...These of you who are alive five, seven, or ten years from now will have a task of reconstruction, the labor of creating a world in which men can live decently together," Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress, told nearly 1000 Freshmen who jammed the main dining room in the Union last night...
BUCHAREST--A new military government, using stern measures to wipe out remnants of the Nazi Iron Guard organization, tonight lined up and shot nine of the Nazi terrorists who assassinated Premier Armand Calinescu in the main street of the city...
...Main warning by Author Buell is that the democracies must guarantee an independent Poland as a guarantee of their own survival. Last week Democracy's big guns were okaying that advice. His second warning: that the democracies must also go to work on Poland's formidable economic and social snarls in order to keep it democratic...
...faced child, slept in a barracks: the soldiers "assaulted" him. This shocking experience, which sent him shuddering home, caused not merely a "revulsion," says Author Starkie, but a sensual "revelation." At home, Rimbaud set out to shock the respectable citizens. He would stroll, dressed like a tramp, down the main street during the sacred apéritif hour, smoking a short pipe and, "what was considered most outrageous of all," smoking it bowl downwards. During the Paris Commune, Rimbaud picketed his native shops, shouting: "Beware! Your hour is at hand! Order is vanquished!" When Poet Verlaine, who admired Rimbaud...