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Word: reade (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first test, held in December, proved conclusively that people can be taught to read faster and more intelligently: and the authorities expect that Friday's test will show poor reading ability results in low grades...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: READING TEST FRIDAY HOPED TO IMPROVE FRESHMAN MARKS | 3/21/1939 | See Source »

...ballots, which had to be signed, read simply "Do you want an election of Class Officers?" and the voting was held in the Union during lunch and supper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN VOTE DOWN CLASS ELECTIONS IN REFERENDUM | 3/21/1939 | See Source »

...Harry Harkness Flagler, nephew of Edward Harkness, and Standard Oil executive, is expected to care for the large overflow of poetry material now in the library, and also to provide a place in which recordings of the works of modern poets can be heard without disturbing those wanting to read...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WIDENER POETRY ROOM BUILDS NEW ADDITION | 3/21/1939 | See Source »

...White House.* began when he met Mrs. Galt, who was brought to the White House one day by the President's Cousin Helen Bones. They had a laugh together over her muddy shoes, his disheveled golf suit. Later she joined the family circle when Woodrow Wilson read aloud, went for automobile rides with him and Miss Bones. Barely two months later when the President proposed marriage, she was so surprised that she blurted: "Oh, you can't love me, for you don't really know me; and it is less than a year since your wife died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Wife's Story | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...Tiso drove away, Führer Hitler's Elite Bodyguard rolled out a drum salute reserved for foreign statesmen who are still in office. Dr. Tiso hurried to a telephone and called Premier Sidor in Bratislava: summon the Slovak Parliament, he commanded, for he was coming to read it a declaration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHO-SLOVAKIA: Shoulder to Shoulder | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

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