Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only a few weeks ago it was common experience to read in American papers verbatim excerpts from specific government-controlled newspapers in Europe. These excerpts were printed without comment...
Much of what we Americans in Europe have read recently from American publications about politics leads some of us to suspect that something has gone wrong with American journalism...
...hunting licenses, John H. Baker, executive director of the National Association of Audubon Societies, proposed examinations comparable to automobile drivers' tests. An applicant, he mildly suggested, should be made to show his knowledge of how to load, carry, fire and unload a gun, prove his ability to read game laws and posted signs, know by sight the game birds and animals in his vicinity...
...head in the window. No mere precocity, this faculty of imaginative vision remained his extraordinary endowment throughout life. Before he was 20 he learned the craft of engraving and wrote his Poetical Sketches, the purest lyric poetry of the century. At 24 he married a girl who could neither read nor write. Blake might have had worldly advancement but it scared him. In 1795, when someone got him the offer of a post as Tutor in Drawing to the Royal Family, he not only declined but gave up all his drawing pupils in panic...
...popular in elementary schools from coast to coast has a picture of Charles Lindbergh and his Spirit of St. Louis. Youngsters who complete their grade-school education in Oklahoma are rewarded with diplomas picturing hat-waving Will Rogers. Most famous Will Rogers line: "All I know is what I read in the papers...