Word: ue
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newspaper syndicate with papers in 31 states had adopted the practice of clipping unnecessary "ugh's" and "ue's" from words such as those in the sample sentence above...
...Board for gradual adoption in schoolbooks used by the State, reported that the simplified spelling movement had the support of 22 other State Teachers' Associations and of 173 universities, colleges, normal schools, including 19 state universities. Simplified spellers drop the superfluous "ough" from "through," "though," "bought"; the superfluous "ue" from "catalogue," "decalogue," "pedagogue," "monologue...
Most fables are founded on a perversion of fact. Senor Alvarotez, with great acumen, has been at work reconstructing this myth in the light of facts. On the will of the tower hung a small pla ue; its words, when deciphered accordign to the key furnished by the Bingham Expedition, read as follows: "Rising Bell. To be rung each morning at the rising of the sun". Then followed the date, in our calendar 1236 A. D. A minute examination of the chamber brought to light a collection of cracked and faded parchments, apparently of an official nature. The most interesting...
...less interesting as it departs from class and college issues, and by the time it has reached world affairs it is anathema. The sporting page of the newspapers has ten readers for every one of the first page. A murder case is much more discussed than even the pictures ue gyrations of General Dawes...
...somewhat grotes ue conception of the nature of a game to force one to play it; but it is the crowing buffoonery that, when one has succeeded in training himself to enjoy it, he be prevented his realization of that enjoyment. Is it too much to ask that, if games are to be compulsory, they may at least not be forbidden at arbitrary and unreasonable times? BRYANT PRESCOTT...