Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General's office snapped, "We won't fight over the body." Dick Whitney surrendered, was booked at the Elizabeth St. police-station while a group of Bowery derelicts were momentarily herded from the desk. After the prisoner had been searched, Desk Lieutenant Simon P. Breen remarked as though one of the neighborhood boys had gone wrong: "Mr. Whitney, I'm sorry to see you in this trouble and wish you luck...
...estates. In Roslyn's schools children from all these groups sit side by side. Ten years ago these schools began to go "progressive." Since tall, athletic Superintendent Frederick R. Wegner (a onetime Cornell baseball player) arrived four years ago, they have won fame outside Roslyn. But progressive education, though less costly in Roslyn than in some other towns, is more expensive than old-fashioned schooling and a year ago Roslyn taxpayers began to circulate a petition for a return to the three Rs. The petition struck a responsive chord. It soon had 340 signatures, turned out 400 parents...
...floor confused both teams. With Luisetti as high man scoring 20 points, Stanford won, 52-to-39. In the second game, played in Stanford's small Pavilion ("Cracker Box"), Luisetti's teammates began feeding him shots in the hope of bringing his scoring record to 1,600. Though Stanford again won, 59-to-51, he and they failed-by four points...
...Longeverne likes rain. One day, centuries back, the peasant folk of the two villages set out for the same shrine to pray for their respective needs. Brisk words led to a brisk battle, and the prayers went unsaid. The feud is still being fought by 20th-century youngsters, even though the blonde schoolteacher (Claude May) at Velrans and the handsome mayor of Longeverne (Jean Murat) are more than willing to set an example in neighborly love. In the children's war, the most telling blow is to snip off all a captive's buttons, send him home holding...
...hundred years ago next month a group of top-hatted Manhattanites, led by their mayor, put out from a shaky pier in the North River to cheer the arrival of the British steamer Sirius, which, with 40 passengers, had made the voyage from Ireland in 18 days. Though the U. S. ship Savannah and Canada's Royal William, both with auxiliary steam equipment, had sailed the ocean years earlier, the little 178-foot, 700-ton, paddle wheeler Sirius was greeted by the mayor as the first vessel to cross the whole Atlantic under steam power. Wooden-built...