Word: weren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...census takers simply asked whether a person could read & write. Too many illiterates, the bureau felt, were not admitting it. So, in 1940, the bureau asked people only how many years of school they had finished. (If you had completed five, you were "literate"; if not, you weren...
...back to this little man--he was different from the others--sort of secretive. He got it across to us that he wanted to sell us a gold ring. We told him we weren't interested, but he kept after us, getting more and more persistent. After awhile he got all hot an fidgety, and let us gather that he had stolen this ring. Naturally this made us agree to inspect...
Balancing this wholesale loss is the presence of several capable athletes who weren't around last fall. Tall Tom Guthrie, a 230-pound transfer student from Notre Dame (he played first-string end) has been moved to tackle. Guard Jack Coan started five games for Harvard's informal Varsity back in 1945, and now shapes up as one of the starting guards...
Balancing this wholesale loss is the presence of several capable athletes who weren't around last fall. Tall Tom Guthrie, a 230-pound transfer student from Notre Dame (he played first-string end) has been moved to tackle. Guard Jack Coan started five games for Harvard's informal Varsity back in 1945, and now shapes up as one of the starting guards...
...triumph with the tots could not have been more timely. Like all other publishers, S. & S. was having trouble with adult readers ; they simply weren't buying books on the scale of booming...