Word: ways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editorial masterpiece, which used 35 of the 80 words on the simplified spelling list, the Tribune explained: "Now it's all over. We're saying good-by to simplified spelling. We hope that no hassocs will be shied in our direction as we make our way down the aile to the mourners' bench...
Pointing out that both indicted directors and the vice president had resigned, McKesson & Robbins' Trustee William J. Wardall declared: "The indictment . . . should in no way impair the continued public confidence in the administration of McKesson & Robbins, Inc., whose business is progressing soundly towards full recovery." McKesson's net sales for February, said Trustee Wardall, were up nearly three quarters of one per cent from February...
...Barney Worth, 26, 686 Ibs. (waistline: 7 ft.), and Joy, 27, 420 Ibs. (waistline: over 6 ft.). Because Worth sprained his ankle on the voyage from Australia, he could not mount the ship's gangway at Boulogne, had to be hoisted aboard by derrick, unloaded the same way. Asked how he met his wife, Barney Worth replied: "She came into my butcher's shop for some meat. She bought a lot, and I liked her idea of an appetite. ... It was love at first sight." An average Worth daily diet: 12 Ibs. of meat, five loaves of bread...
...love letters from a dozen women" found in his pocket, and his Colt revolver. Officers said there was nothing to it-that they wondered why he made such a fuss, suspected he wanted something to write about, collected $10, took him to the city limits, sent him on his way...
...when reactionaries broke into a Bavarian legislative session, kidnapped radical delegates. There are enough such climaxes in the 543 forthright, unsparing pages of Fighting Years to make it a valuable record. But Author Villard writes of revolution and shifts in The Nation's policy in the same steady way-for him, obviously, the battles are more important than his book...