Word: yanks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yank Gots to Third...
...reader is sure gonna have one, too, if he plunges any deeper into this indiscriminate flood of words. Baxter Bernstein recounts the anguish of a not-so-young Yank who, on the eve of World War II, feels bound to make a confession: although he has always meant to write a book that "would be reviewed by Edmund...
Remarkable Reform. By 1947, some of the boys were running wild enough-gambling and crapshooting in dark corners of the Capitol-to make Congress yank the rein. The old school was replaced by the present District branch; an age limit of 14 to 18 was set; closer control was imposed on after-hours activities. At the same time, tuition was dropped, salaries boosted, and uniforms of all pages made uniform, except for the knee-breeches which the Supreme Court still requires...
Last year, amid reams of newspaper ballyhoo, Davenport received the magnet for the machine--a magnet so strong that it could yank hammers out of people's hands and stop all the watches hear...
...must get an O.K. from their Dental Estimates Board before starting expensive dental work. Said one dentist last week: "Sometimes it's a damned nuisance getting authority from some pipsqueak on the board before you can start a job, but I admit there are some chaps who would yank out a mouthful of teeth for the profit they get on the dentures. So in a socialized service I suppose we've got to put up with some interference...