Word: used
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...facts in approved police-reporter fashion, stringing them together in the order of the excitement they contained. In the New York Times, Correspondent Edward A. Morrow also wrote of truncheons and firehoses. But he took pains to say that the soldiers "kept their tempers and followed orders to use a minimum of force...
...Vining tried a novel approach. She explained: "One of the first things I did was to teach him to play tennis in English." That made the language seem of some use. Then she got him interested in games involving a map of the world and miniature ships. "The ships follow routes: they stop at a port and unload a cargo of rice and take on a cargo of coffee. They run into fog and have to turn back. There is a lot of vocabulary practice in the natural talk of playing the game. ... I teach everything in English. Then, when...
...skeptical U.S. radiomen, BBC's Transcription Director Thomas P. Gale had a ready comment on casual British timing: ". . . If the sieve we use for selecting broadcast material leaves works like these on the wrong side, then I think we should change our mesh...
Varsity tennis should undergo a needed shot in the arm from the new installations, both as a material building factor and for their own use. Special courts may now be allotted to the team, always available for unscheduled informal practice...
...indicated that more is at stake than a successful cross country season. With definite Olympic possibilities like Don Trimble and Sam Felton returning next spring in the field events, the Harvard coach plans to use the forthcoming harrier season as a means of revitalizing his anemic middle distance and distance forces so they can keep pace with the high point...