Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What is really needed, said University of California's Chemist Joel Hildebrand in a speech called "Education in the Light of the Satellites," is to wipe away the distortions of John Dewey's thinking that have led so many schools to fall for the cults of life adjustment. "One of our greatest dangers lies in an anti-intellectualism fostered by school authorities who should be among its most valiant opponents. One expression of it is the pious cliche, 'We teach boys and girls, not subjects.' The superintendent of schools in a large city puts this into...
...Affan (A.D. 574-656) has chronicled his own practice of this custom before Mohammed outlawed it. Ben Affan was burying his own daughter alive. As he was covering the child with earth, some dust was thrown up on his beard. The daughter, her arms still free, reached up to wipe the dust from her father's face; he proceeded with the grisly burial. Later, in describing the incident," he said: "It was the only time in my life that I ever shed a tear...
...funds were inadequate, deductions would be made from payrolls in return for stock in new enterprises. In effect, the development bank would operate like an investment trust in the U.S., diffusing stock ownership over the maximum number of depositors and eliminating the risk of a bad investment that might wipe out a single investor's capital...
Theatrically, it would not matter if Saroyan wrote first with an eraser−to wipe out reality−if afterwards, with a pen, he created magic. But this play has little magic: only a stab of pathos, now and then, in a wilderness of plight; or a flash of color, humor, poetry amid constant murmuration...
...Handed. In Detroit, Lawrence Mish was nabbed for turning in a false alarm from a newly painted fire box when a fireman spotted him trying to wipe red paint off his hands...