Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than ever an unusual figure -an educator who never claimed to be learned, seldom had time to read, still spoke with a Yankee twang. Old boys and townspeople remembered him jingling to school on snowy days in his horse-drawn sleigh, or shuffling through the autumn leaves with his worn grey cape blowing behind him. He has long kept office at a big desk in the hallway of the main building, where boys can stop and chat between classes...
Last week, the Ada High School held graduation exercises for its Class of '49: Eva Mae Bradbury, 16 (see cut). All through school Eva Mae had sat in with other classes, had never really had a room or a teacher of her own. The first year of high school she took second-year subjects; in the second year, first-year subjects. Third and fourth years were similarly reversed. In third year, as the junior class, she supplied the annual supper for the seniors: counting teachers and friends, there were 25 mouths to feed...
Those he keeps are more than likely to go places, thanks to the fact that Ben Jones is a first-class manager as well as a smart conditioner of horses. Plenty of other stables have good stock, conditioned to a fine edge, but never make money because the trainers run their animals in competition that is over their heads...
...quaint and comfortable looking on the outside, elegant and modern inside, with chrome handles on stall doors, chrome saddle racks, cork-brick floors and pine-paneled walls. Although 55 persons and 140 horses inhabit the farm, the place is so carefully kept that it gives an impression of never having been used. But Willow Run has nothing on Calumet's production line...
Into the sea they went that day, every slithering, slimy serpent of them excepting one. "I prefer to coil me great length up and go to sleep," that one told the saint. "I had never a great taste for drowning." "Very good," said Patrick, "then how about coiling yerself in this box here for it is very comfortable." ;' 'Tis not big enough," said the snake. " 'Tis big enough and plenty," said the saint. " 'Tis not," said the snake. "It is," said the saint. "I say it is not," said the snake, and to prove the point...