Word: weren
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. The Marches' position in the Middle-Western metropolis of St. Pierre was assured ? weren't they the children and grandchildren of old Andrew March who had always saved his pennies and whose name was still a byword for the good old rock-bound kind of success? And Bradford and Penelope March were advance for their day ? they let their children call them by their first names and believed in their being healthy and, as far as possible, free. But Janet, their daughter, was an absolutely modern model with the latest streamline attachments, self-starter...
Gloucester may well be proud of its hero. Even the old timers as they left the hall chuckled to themselves and admitted that perhaps these young fellers weren't quite so dull as they seemed. To the ignorant metropolitan, unversed in the lore of the cod, the record is evidence that not even the introduction of machinery and fish factories has been able to deprive-fish skinning of its artistry. --The New York Tribune
...rough-riding championship for that year--the reward which had been promised to anyone who could ride Sharkey for more than the conventional time. Mr. Furlong attributed his success to a study of "bull-riding psychology" by which he was able to fool himself into thinking his "joints weren't really coming apart, but only felt that way", and so to "concentrate on his finger ends and hang...
...course the crowd wasn't to blame for not cheering because there weren't any cheer leaders, and for the same reason they can scarcely be blamed for going away. We need cheer leaders and ought to have them at the Holy Cross game on Wednesday. There is no reason for waiting until the Princeton game before we start to cheer. Most of us haven't been in a regular cheering section since last November, and our cheering won't be very good at the Princeton game if we don't try it a few times before. It wasn...
There has been a very strong inherent objection on the part of our people to subsidizing ships. Other countries indulge in these subsidies, sometimes in the form of giving favorable mail contracts. In the Philippines the inter-island commerce was so demoralized in 1904 that the ships weren't earning enough to keep them in proper repair and they were going out in such condition that they were an absolute menace to human life. A policy of ship subsidies was adopted there and worked like magic. Inside of a few months the ships were spruced up, running on regular schedules...