Word: rural
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...causing substance in polluted air, Dr. Stocks had no clue. In smoggy areas, the death rates were almost identical for light smokers (less than a pack a day) and nonsmokers. But among men who smoked more than a pack a day, the death rate rose, paradoxically, far faster in rural, smog-free areas. Explanation? Dr. Stocks had none...
...century ago, but its less-than-perfect school system did not slow or discourage Beadle's active mind. He made his own lunch, generally jelly sandwiches (he still hates jelly sandwiches) and walked the three-mile round trip to school. When he earned a little money by such rural operations as keeping bees and trapping muskrats, he bought garlic bolognas (two for 5?) at the Bohemian butcher shop...
Krim's first rebellion was against his father, a garde chamèptre (rural warden) in the mountainous, impoverished Kabylia region of eastern Algeria. His father, an old-fashioned Berber patriarch whose first loyalty was to his clan, wanted Krim to stay at home and follow the traditional Berber way of life. But Krim, determined to share in the new European existence introduced by the French, ran off to Algiers, where he lived with a cousin who was a minor civil servant, learned to read and speak French. Like the great majority of top rebel leaders, he is practically...
Timber Line. Vermont-born Llewellyn Sherman Adams grew up in the stern standards of rural New England, and he is stubborn, frugal and contradictory as only a rural Yankee can be. His parents were divorced after they moved to Providence, when Sherm was a boy, and he lived mostly with his mother, but he spent his summers in Vermont under the tutelage of his grandfather. He scratched through four years at Dartmouth, studying economics, singing (basso) in the glee club, hiking the hills and mountains of the north country. For 18 years Adams worked for a lumber company in Lincoln...
...then topped it off with syllepsis (the use of a word to modify two or more others, only one of which it agrees with in gender, number, etc.). Prize for Terry Madeira, an eighth-grader at Elizabethtown (Pa.) Junior High School: $500. For Jolitta. an eighth-grader at Harmony Rural School in McPherson, Kans., who studies spelling with her schoolteacher mother, plans to become a missionary, use most of the money for her education...