Word: ver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...relation to the station. The pilot need not listen to wearying dots and dashes in his headset. All he has to do if he wants to fly toward the omnirange is to tune to its frequency and then watch a needle on his instrument board. When the needle is ver tical, the plane is headed toward the station (see diagram...
...behind Main Street, the white frame-houses are scrubbed spotless, and box elders border carefully trimmed lawns. The citizens of Sioux Center bear such names as Gerritsma, Ver Steeg, Van de Garde, Schouten; some 97% of the town's population is of Dutch ancestry. Communicants of the strict Reformed (Calvinist) faith, they keep a tight rein on their youngsters. Main Street has one beer parlor, no state liquor store, no dance hall...
...young, has led a void life caring for the old lady (Agnes Moorehead), has compensated by poring over the poet's letters, has conceived a coy necrophilia for him. By day she is the cold spinster, by night ah! with her kitten and her finch and that sill ver oubliette which holds the letters (sweet counterfeits of passion!), she is indeed a very Mab of love. The publishing fellow (Robert Cummings), sniffing out the letters, blunders into her dream, effects a gentle transfer of her affects to his own living person and, though lose he must the literary remains...
...here, it's here, it's here!. Yale-Harvard weekend's here!. I've been dreaming about this weekend ver since I could dream. But why did I decide to go with a Yalie? My dorm has disowned me going with a Yale man. And now Leo's ostracized me just cause I said I wouldn't root for Yale at the game. (Harvard HAS to win now.) He said all the other girls, from self-respecting girls' schools, are already over by the piano learning the songs. I said I knew the Crimson cheers, so he left...
...enrollment 116 are non-veterans, a mere seven percent. Normal peacetime counts of the Law School population show an average of 1,400 ver ordinary years, but during the war in 1943 and 1944 the attendance dropped to about...