Word: weren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this weren't enough, Coach Bruce Munro has a feud on with the Dartmouth coach, Tom Dent. Both are also soccer coaches and began a rivalry last fall when Munro's Crimson soccer team swatted Dent's Green soccer team...
Before long, students were jumping up and offering everything from pocket change to folding money. Thirteen pledged $100 apiece or more. One, planning to repair his car, pledged his $100 with a shout of "Goodbye, jalopy!" Within a matter of minutes they had pledged some $2,000, but they weren't through...
Although his team took seven firsts and scored in all but two of the 16 events, Mikkola was disappointed in some of the performances. "We got most of the points in the weights," he said, "but the distances, especially in the discus, weren't too good--we will have to improve for the Dartmouth meet this Saturday...
...Says he: "The freed patients were like horses that were tied up for years in the barn. Let them go and they run and kick. So I let them. They were happier than they had been for years. I figured there'd be lots of fights. But there weren't any." One of his patients, who had been in constant restraint for eight years, is now in charge of a ward bathroom and is proud of his responsibilities...
...classic of modern literary criticism. His tutor, Semanticist I. A. Richards, had been exploring the wide range of meanings that various minds can find in the simplest verse. Empson took up the subject and exhausted it. Some readers complained Poet-Mathematician Empson had "read things into poetry that weren't there," erecting double or multiple meanings into a poetic principle...