Word: sheds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early to serve a five-day sentence for disorderly conduct. Purpose: to get on with his cramming in solitude. In El Paso, a prisoner awaiting trial for trying to smuggle sedatives to inmates got tight on twelve pints of smuggled stimulants. In Philadelphia, a prisoner awaiting trial tried reducing, shed 38 pounds, squeezed through his bars to freedom...
Over the bright new stone and whitewash museum that stood at the other end of the dooryard they brooded like a couple of aging hens over a porcelain egg. Grumbled George: "Those buildings they're putting up aren't adequate. Candidly I never saw a carriage shed anywhere like those out there. That's just an architect's imagination, that is." Said Brother Henry philosophically: "Well, we want these things to be where people can see and study them." Descended from a long line of Pennsylvania Dutch, they were brought up in a well...
Riding rough-shed over their Crimson rivals, the Yale Polo Team completely routed the Harvard horsemen Saturday afternoon to score a decisive 14 to 1 victory in their final match of the season. Tom Higgonson, number 3 man on the quartet, scored Harvard's lone marker...
This announcement last week provided more talk for the U.S. Senate (see p. ip), confirmed most observers in the opinion that the Battle of the Atlantic was Britain's most crucial struggle. It also shed some interesting new light on the trend of that battle. This loss of almost half a million tons was terrific. The month was the third worst after June 1940, the month of Dunkirk (533,902 tons) and March 1941 (489,229 tons). Later revisions would probably put April above March and into second place...
...parade will enter the automobile gate nearest the gun shed, following which the Battery Commanders will take over the ROTC men and put them through their paces. Men who have shone in one way or another will receive medals and awards, given by the receiving officer. Colonel Jay has stated that all families and friends of the members of the ROTC are cordially invited to attend the Review...