Word: ough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...played & lost a single game to the British. Two years later international polo really started when a team headed by Foxhall Keene of Philadelphia was formally exported, won the first game and lost the next two. Soon Harry Payne Whitney took a hand. This famed sportsman opened a thor- ough preparatory drive to beat Britain, selected his team, schooled his ponies over a period of years. In 1909 the "Big Four," Whitney, Monty and Larry Waterbury, and Milburn, sailed for England and drubbed Britain, in two straight games. Since then there have been five challenges, and four of them have...
...usages recommended by the Simplified Spelling Board for gradual adoption in schoolbooks used by the State, reported that the simplified spelling movement had the support of 22 other State Teachers' Associations and of 173 universities, colleges, normal schools, including 19 state universities. Simplified spellers drop the superfluous "ough" from "through," "though," "bought"; the superfluous "ue" from "catalogue," "decalogue," "pedagogue," "monologue...
...schools which have entered the meet are as follows: Beacon School, Brookline High, Dorchester High, Framingham High, High School of Commerce, Lynn Classical High, Lynn English High, Moses Brown School, Noble and Green ough, Phillips Andover Academy, Phillips Exeter Academy, Plymouth High, Providence Technical High, South Boston High, St. John's Preparatory School, Tilton Seminary, Wakefield High; West Roxbury High, Winthrop High, Worcester Academy and Worcester classical High...