Word: catching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...common stocks." At the end of 20 years it would have swelled to $80,000 and be yielding $400 a month in income. It was such an easy way to get rich that messenger boys stopped to read the stock-tickers in offices, chauffeurs drove with ears cocked to catch some word of a merger, and elevator operators were never long out of touch with their brokers...
...while they try the formation in panel four. With the left end over beyond the right end, there are four possible receivers to the right (black arrows) and the defensive alignments are confused. Although the right end is ineligible in such a formation, the left guard (light arrow) could catch a pass...
...think that was something, you should have seen them senior picnics," he said. "Why they used to drink a gallon of beer apiece and all sobered up by jumping in the bay and trying to catch a greased...
During the first days of World War II, when King George's mother was sent from London to the comparative safety of the ancient Gloucestershire estate of Badminton, one of the first things to catch her eye was an untidy tangle of hawthorn. She promptly resolved to clean it up, and every day thereafter from lunch until tea time, Britain's Queen Mother led a party armed with pruning shears, billhooks and mattocks, against the undergrowth. "No one who came to Badminton, whatever their rank or position, was exempt," says her latest biographer. "Queen Mary . . . worked with...
...does make some good guesses about how they exist. The dynamos run down, the reservoirs run dry, the cigarettes go flat and the canned goods lose their flavor, yet The Tribe cannot find the patience or the seed to keep a garden, nor the wit to catch a cow. The children scarcely learn to read, and soon begin to think of the vanished Americans as a race of gods...