Word: owned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brass Button Revue (Wed. 10:40 p.m., NBC-TV). NBC pages, guides and guidettes present their own show.'
Can You Imagine? The University of California faculty wanted no dictating. The Academic Senate of the university's northern section (composed of 700 professors and instructors) refused to accept the Regents' new loyalty oath unless the senate's own representatives were allowed to help revise it. Meanwhile...
Bernard Shaw this week warned foreigners visiting Britain to speak broken English: "Even among English people, to speak too well is a pedantic affectation. In a foreigner it is something worse than an affectation. It is an insult to the native who cannot understand his own language when it is...
*Asked if she would be afraid of a mouse in her own home, one of the girls replied: "Oh yes. Those are fierce, wild mice."
The mammoth was a baby perhaps only a few days old. It was still bald, like its relatives, the modern elephants, rather than hairy like its own parents. It stood about 3 ft. high and weighed more than 200 lbs. One day, some 15,000 years ago, something happened to...