Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Father Edward Joseph Flanagan, famed man-maker of Boys Town, Neb., went to Whittier, Calif, last week to make a little speech to the 232 tough, erring or merely mischievous inmates of California's reform school. The occasion was the inauguration of a new administrator of the school, T...
"This people is made of better stuff-is more ready to face the truth, more ready to rise to the occasion-than the President implies by his cleverness and his maneuvers and his devices and his causual comment on great issues. . . .
Earnest, spectacled William McChesney Martin Jr., 34, who looks more like an apple-cheeked bumpkin than the $48,000-a-year president of the New York Stock Exchange, resigned his job, and last week joined the U.S. Army at $21 a month. Because willing service by the wealthy is good...
Just what deity Rudolf Hess, whose job it is to protect his Führer, referred to was not specified. It could scarcely have been the God of the Orthodox Eastern Church, which was next day to celebrate its Easter, symbolic of rebirth, expressing faith in life, not an occasion...
Well fitted for his part is Brace Beemer. Thirty-eight, Beemer stands 6 ft. 3, weighs 200 lb., is an excellent horseman, a superb shot, a handy man with a 35-ft. bull whip. His voice is so much like Graser's that his substitute version of the Ranger...