Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They decided that the country's 1,000,000 Girl Scouts could raise $250,000 for foreign relief next year by giving up "a couple of candy bars." Barbara, one of the youngest and therefore least noticed, screwed up her courage enough to say at a race-prejudice discussion: "We shouldn't be mean to people; we should treat them just as we want to be treated...
...children patter questions & answers (asked where Grandpa was, Dickie replied: "At the race track"). Sometimes Dick and Jill sing; the blamed canary never stops...
Chagall's peculiarly repetitive "humor" had its roots in Vitebsk, Russia. Under the Czars, no Jew could forget the burden of dread which Christian Europe forced on his race. But Chagall's family were Hasideans, who rebelled against the sober intellectualism of the Talmudists. They taught young Marc that the essence of religion was love, and that sorrow could only cloud communication with...
...mustn't be asked to enter a rat-race of publication," he asserted. On the other hand "no one lauds the professor who parrots what he learned in college thirty years ago from his old undergraduate notes...
Tonight Ted Norris, standout Freshman star of the swimming team, will receive the Eugene B. Wyman trophy for having scored the highest number of points in dual meet competition this year. Norris, who did not lose a race all season in his own event, the 440, placed third in the N.C.A.A. national championship 1500-meter competition...