Word: weren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that kind of money," he complained blandly, "we weren't getting the kind of protection we were paying...
With the March issue, "Radditudes" has become a magazine. It used to seem more like an experiment: readers weren't so interested in getting forty-five cents worth of reading enjoyment as they were in backing a good thing, in giving what was an embryonic collection of writings a chance to grow into something better and more permanent. "Radditudes" has responded to this philanthropic support. It has reduced its price to a reasonable twenty-five cents and increased the interest value of its appearance by throwing some color on its cover and some cartoons and futuristic are through its contents...
...existence. Mayor Israel Rokach angrily ticked off some of his city's woes: "We have twelve dead people in our hospital and we can't bury them. We've got milk for one more day and they've stopped our milk trucks because their passes weren't properly stamped. We've slaughtered all our cattle and we're not getting any new cattle. It's complete disorganization. What kind of bastards do they think we are? We'll organize our lives. We haven't given...
...first, I was afraid he'd start dancing me over the furniture. A graceful glide got me functioning. But then I got an attack of nerves. We twirled, or rather we tried, but my knees buckled. They just weren't up to it. I caught my breath as he swung me again. Then, I sort of stiffened up like a cold cod. Then, I almost bit my tongue and then, thank goodness, the music stopped...
...been so long that most people have forgotten, but there was a time, before the war, when undergraduates weren't required to take hour exams. Only freshmen had to take them, on the theory that they couldn't be expected to know what a Harvard exam was like and that they'd better have some practice before those big mid-year exams in January came up for the first time. With the war, it was necessary to set up hour exams at the end of the sixth and tenth weeks for all students in the College, inasmuch as the greeting...