Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed a bill giving Widow Grace Goodhue Coolidge free use of the mails; sent it to the House...
...Leipzig next day Chancellor Hitler, who can play the piano and prefers to play Wagner, sat through a musical commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Wagner's death. A bachelor and only 43, Handsome Adolf has often been rumored engaged to Frau Winifred Wagner, 35, an English-born widow whose maiden name was Williams, and who is the relict of Genius Wagner's son Siegfried. Greeting Frau Wagner formally though courteously, Chancellor Hitler left her with the stereotyped phrase, "Auf wiedersehen, Gnädige Frau...
...even though to find them, we must drag along the intellectually uncurious? I should prefer to tutor every man as intensively as he desires, and then have no regrets over those who fail the divisional examinations. (But of course if the tutoring system is merely a substitute for the widow, I have the wrong slant on everything...
...face to face with anarchy" from a Monticello mortgage broker who collected $4.90 on a $2,500 claim. At Cherokee, Okla. an attorney for Equitable Life was driven ten miles out of town and dumped from a deputy sheriff's automobile when he started to foreclose on a widow's farm. At Pine Bluff, Ark. a State judge, presented with 500 foreclosure petitions, intoned: "The case against the debtor will be continued for the term. I'm not going to foreclose on any farm where the people . . . have any chance of pulling through." A judge at Magnolia...
There is no objection to the professor having a battle of wits with the Widow, but it should be of a different kind. It is certainly possible to devise an examination which shall reveal whether the student has a thorough knowledge of the subject, or only such a superficial knowledge as might be gained in five hours cramming. Nor is there any reason why, such an examination need be "tricky." It should lay emphasis upon reasoning power, and ability to present the points logically. And the attempt to make out such exams might be supplemented by a more discerning reading...