Word: poked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sweet Marie along for company. Folks around Fort Yukon learned that they had made a fairly good strike. Then word came in that the prospectors had fallen to quarreling. Next thing heard was that Tom Jensen had killed Adams, Holmberg and the Schmidt woman and run off with a poke worth some...
...immersion but in strict Biblical interpretation, passive resistance to force, rigid avoidance of tobacco, spirits, musical instruments and, until recently, electricity, automobiles and telephones. Last week on the Brubaker Farm near Eaton, Ohio gathered 8,000 Dunkers, the men in black coats and broad-brimmed hats, the women in poke bonnets and long capes. Watched by 12,000 spectators, they held mass communion in a big tent, first washing their feet, then sitting at long tables to break bread and pass the wine goblet from hand to hand. By the tenets of their faith, sinful Dunkers refrained from partaking. Later...
...education with the great streams of human knowledge, thought and aspiration. . . . The weaker normal schools and teachers' colleges should be closed, while the remainder should become centers, not of pedagogy as traditionally conceived, but of knowledge and thought." Besides this body blow, the Commission took a savage poke at modern pedagogy's right arm, the intelligence test. What test scores reveal, the Commission did not know. For predicting vocational success. formulating social and educational policies, such tests are "patently limited," "utterly inadequate," "meaningless." Best-known of the authors of these heresies is American Historical Association's retiring...
...laughter from the insanely practical Frenchmen, one may strike on the solution of this little mystery without resorting to an encyclopedia by wondering what would shock a staid Anglo Saxon. Hillel Bernstein writes simple prose, gently mocking everything in France by la France, and not forgetting to take a poke at some of our noble customs and institutions such as the "Busters" which vaguely resembles the American Legion, or the Gold Star Legation. Bernstein's satire will surely amuse you, provided that you are not a "Buster...
Strengthened by President Roosevelt's act, Russia now feels strong enough, Comrade Stalin indicated, to withstand an assault from either the East (Japan) or the West (Germany). "We warn all such nations," said the Dictator, "not to poke their swinish snouts into the Soviet potato patch...