Word: spells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...homeless children roamed the country, Pestalozzi gathered together as many as he could, and started an orphan school in Stans. "We wept and smiled together," he wrote. "They forgot the world . . . and only knew they were with me and I with them. ... I sought less to teach [them] to spell, read and write than to make use of these exercises for the purpose of giving their minds as full and as varied a development as possible." In the end he succeeded. Talleyrand, Mme. de Staël and Robert Owen came to learn from Pestalozzi. Philosopher Fichte introduced Pestalozzi...
Rose Bowl team. Last year, after a spell in the Army ended in a medical discharge, he again starred in U.C.L.A.'s backfield...
Actually, the change was more in title than in fact. The Master of the Rouge at 82 will still keep his fingers on the controls of his company as an "adviser." He showed no signs of retiring: despite a spell of sickness, which laid him flat on his back three weeks ago, he was once more dog-trotting through his plants last week, keeping a sharp blue eye on everything...
Pearl Harbor broke the spell. A U.S.Peruvian dragnet swept up the Japanese leaders, sent some 1,500 of them to the U.S. The humbler Japs were not molested; Peruvians hoped that the small fry, freed from Tokyo domination, would not be a serious menace. The 1,500 deportees were still in the U.S. last week. Peru did not care what happened to them so long as they were not shipped back to Peru...
...returned to the U.S., worked two years in an overall factory, sank $75 in a restaurant which flopped because he spent more time painting than cooking. In 1936, after a spell as a houseboy, he began painting in earnest on a $94-a-month WPA grant...