Word: tearful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was nothing more to be said. After Mr. Thomas sang I Love You Truly with only one mistake (inserting "cheer" for "tear" in the second line, first stanza), somebody read a poem contributed by tireless California Author Kathleen Norris ("Where have you flown to, bird, in the dawning glory...
...Snavely's second remark simply does not square with the facts. According to the available figures, about one hundred thousand qualified secondary-school graduates are barred from attending college every tear solely because they are poor. This group, almost half as large as the total college enrollment of the nation, cannot be absorbed within present scholarship funds without reducing the average grant to an inadequate pittance, and the part-time job market in the typically small college community is already oversupplied. The presence or absence of 'ambition" does not account for wastage of almost a third of the potential undergraduate...
Even railroads, which once boasted of a year's operation with but a single passenger killed, found wartime wear & tear on equipment, compounded by employe negligence, showing in the fatal statistics: in seven accidents, 66 killed...
...seersucker dresses and dungarees. At Scotland's Loch Lomond (they took the low road) some of them met the German founder of the Hostel movement, 73-year-old Richard Schirrmann. He had been almost blinded when the Nazis tied him to a cross and sprayed his face with tear gas for defying them...
...said that allowed such books to be circulated is to run the risk of having them stolen since they are unobtainable in Boston. That damage may be done to them by overly-excitable people who wish to tear pages from them is another likellihood-hood, he added...