Word: puts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's end Dr. Greene had encouraging answers from 20 broadcasters, was already girding for another scrap-against double talk (idioglossia).* Says he: "If a comedian has to try to put his stuff over by making a fool of our good English, then let him not stay in the business...
...morning recess (10:30), the children took their dinner pails out of closets, munched fruit and passed around popcorn They also put potatoes in the stove to cook for lunch. Johnny went out to the well to fetch water and Ralph to the shed for coal (Miss Campbell lets her boys take turns at these chores, pays them 15? week.) Then boys & girls went to play kickball (like baseball but played with a football) in the yard...
After the lunch hour, having swept her schoolroom, and put Mercurochrome on Gaylyn's cut finger, Miss Campbell found the going harder than in the morning. When Johnny, during a history lesson, remarked: "It sounds kind of goofy," Miss Campbell was shocked, said severely: "I don't think that's very good English." During a sluggish geography lesson that followed, Miss Campbell lost her temper, pointed her pencil, said grimly: "Listen, Doris, you go back and read slower and don't make any mistakes. You're getting to be a terrible thinker...
...paying football players not to come to Reed. In his annual report to the trustees, President Keezer grumped: "I would be happier if football were abandoned entirely." Last straw was an attempt to arrange a "Brain Bowl" game between Reed and oft-trounced University of Chicago. President Keezer put a stop to that...
...year-old Dr. Davison hopes to turn the compromise between the hospital and the A.M.A. into a lasting peace. Chicagoans, weary of squabbles and political scandal, hoped that he would plump for a bigger appropriation to buy more bedpans, provide more ward space, keep beds out of corridors, put up a new building to relieve overcrowding...