Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...During the war I met a graduate of Harvard, indeed he bore the Harvard name. I never saw his face distinctly while he lived, for we met only at night where our sectors adjoined. I caught only such glimpses of him as were revealed when rockets and star shells illuminated our meeting place. We had frequent talks, and he told me of his life at Harvard College and all that it meant...
...effects of the storm were felt by miners 500 feet below the surface. The tales of the survivors on the surface were pitiful. One, that of a laborer who was traveling in an automobile and jumped out when he saw the storm coming, is an example...
...machine turned over a couple of times and I never saw it again. I walked the rest of the way to my home, a mile and a half. The place was a complete wreck. I found my daughter-in-law sitting up, dazed, and she died while I tried to talk to her. Her two daughters were 25 feet away, dead. My wife and mother were there, too, dead. Nearby was my 21-year-old-son, Fred. He was dead. Near him was my daughter Margaret. She was 16 two days ago and she was dead. My other daughter...
...Last week, two army aviators-Sergeant Randall L. Bose, Corporal Arthur Bergo-set themselves to disprove the belief. At Mitchel Field, L. I., they ascended to a height of 3,000 feet in a bombing plane, leaped out with closed parachutes. A large crowd had gathered below. This crowd saw the two begin their plunge, waited to see them open their parachutes. After descending a short distance, however, the men began to twist, whirl, somersault. Screams of horror went up from the onlookers. Rushing to the spot where the two would fall, these spectators found the courageous corporal, the intrepid...
This month, anxious parents saw for the first time the program of this year's Secondary School Entrance Examinations made plain in a catalog, with the requirements for each subject. Examinations in English and Mathematics will be given on June 2, in Latin and French on June 3. There will be three examinations in each subject-for seventh, eighth and ninth grades. Each school will administer its own examination and correct its own papers. "What the child must know," is set forth in detail for each subject in the catalog...