Word: weaver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...already admitted to "conversational respectability, even among rather careful speakers of English"). Said Yale's Robert D. French: men like Churchill make the English language. Seconded Princeton's Gordon H. Gerould: idiomatic English is good speech, prissy English is not. Said Columbia's Raymond M. Weaver: "A cheer for Mr. Churchill...
Arpents & Offspring. When Jean Trudel arrived at Quebec in 1645 he was just 16, a weaver by trade, and poor as Job. In his first ten years in New France, he worked for an apothecary, tilled the soil, fought Indians. When he had learned all the tricks necessary for survival in a frontier land, he was given the traditional 30 arpents of land (one arpent: approximately one and a half acres), and was on his own. He cleared away the forest, built a house, then married a Netherlander named Marguerite Thomas...
...getting sick & tired of being referred to as Negro troops. This letter is not being written to further racial discontent but only to get the facts straight, as we are satisfied to let the combat record of the Negroes speak for itself. . . . (PFC.) CHARLES WHITING (Ppc.) C. WEAVER (CPL.) LLOYD JOHNSON (PFC.) ROBERT WTARREN (SGT.) THOMAS TROGDON...
...Pilot Officer Claude Weaver Ill, 22, of Oklahoma City. Weaver enlisted in 1941, won a D.F.M. as a noncom, then a D.F.C. as an officer...
Also, the standings of the teams at this time are as follows: Won Lost COMPANY 6 2 0 Weaver 2 0 Keebler 2 0 Cousins 1 1 Brown 1 1 Pryor 0 2 Matousek 0 2 Company...