Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...May I ask just where your writer digs up this deluded data? The poor misguided jerk must either not have been around at all, or he went around once too often. We at Wilson High, Long Beach, pride ourselves on our high percentage of wheels, but we most certainly have no such idiosyncrasies as your article describes...
...Cervantes died on April 23, 1616, the same day as William Shakespeare" [TIME, Oct. 3], Not quite so. The same date, but not the same day. The English bard died on April 23 Old Style, or May 3 New Style, the system of reckoning already adopted in Spain...
Aneurin Bevan may whisper like "muted flutes" [TIME, Oct. 10], but, as usual, his words are more noteworthy for sound than sense...
Quarterback Clayton is a dependable ball-handler and an excellent passer, and has had a good deal to do with the Big Green's two victories this year. Fitkin, it must be admitted, had been out of action with mononucleosis for two weeks, and may not be up to full speed, but be certainly is in good enough shape to cause trouble around the ends...
Much has been made of the fact that the Big Green deprived of the entire side of its line through graduation and other calamities. This may be so, but the fact remains that they still sport a left end Dave Beeman, as six foot, five inch, 205-pound end who has been a letterman for two years; Ted Eberle, a tackly who filled in behind Johnny Jenkins last year; and Jim Mclville, another 205 pound, two letter man, at guard...