Word: pens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bluebooks were dealt out at her first exam, she extracted the standard tools from the pocket of her blue jeans--pen, pencils, eraser, postcard. Then, unwrapping a dainty, paper-sheathed parcel, she laid on her writing board a spoon, a pink cup and saucer, a small white packet of sugar, a pink napkin. Beside, them she stood a thermos of piping hot coffee...
...Sudan, whose sandy hair is thinning now, tells about the February day he drove through the snow until even his Model-T stuck, then walked ten miles to a rancher dying of pneumonia. On the way he lost his fountain pen. The next spring a road crew brought him the pen and explained: "This must be yours, Doc. Nobody else would have been up in that Williams Fork country in the winter...
...Walla Walla, Wash., two teams of convicts played behind Washington State Penitentiary walls in the first Stone Bowl game. The star: a 155-lb. halfback known as "Floor Show" Fletcher (pen name: No. 21154), a sophomore who scored both touchdowns for the prison All-Stars. Said Referee Tom Deering, who was brought in from the outside: "It was the cleanest game I've worked all season...
Boston correspondents, nevertheless, made full use this afternoon of their right to free speculation. The Record's leading blaster, Dave Egan, pointed his prophetic pen at 32-year of "Biff" Glassford of New Hampshire University, "one of the greatest young coaches in the country." In two years, Glassford has lost only one game, the recent Glass Bowl contest in Toledo...
...Everyman's Library edition), but the Morgan copy was in Thackeray's own neat, minuscule handwriting, and in his watercolors. Thackeray's absurdly hawk-nosed countesses, spindle-shanked kings, periwigged barons, and tubby, pimply princes looked as fresh as if he had just laid down his pen and brush upon his "happy, harmless fableland...