Word: schoolchild
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...columnist visited Strongman Batista twice and was steered around town by Batista's American Pressagent Edmund Chester. Pundit Pearson irritated Cuban readers with his naive reporting and prize factual boners, e.g., Pearson wrote that Batista "once threw out Cuba's most hated dictator," although, as every Cuban schoolchild knows, Batista had nothing to do with Dictator Gerardo Machado's ouster in 1933. Quipped El Mundo Columnist Carlos Robreno: If Batista's cronies had given "one more lunch in his honor," Pearson might have written that "Batista also led the revolution against Spain in 1868 and started...
...often make it impossible for the U.S. to work into new markets. In Hong Kong there is a rule that 25% of the cotton used by the crown colony's mills must come from Commonwealth sources. When the U.S. offered to sell butter to France so that every schoolchild would get a pat of butter with his lunch. French dairymen objected...
Before the end of World War II, the average French schoolchild would have read something like this: "Ever since 1871, the German Kaiserreich, founded through blood and iron and the theft of Alsace-Lorraine . . . has forced upon Europe a new law-the law of brute force...
...Coronation day remembrances were ready to be handed out. Some of them: a gift of up to two ounces of candy for every school-age child in the British Isles; "a coronation propelling pencil" for every schoolchild in London-some $174,000 worth of pencils in all; a check for 2 guineas ($5.88) for every baby born in Birmingham on coronation day, a free drink of whisky for every father and free nylons for every mother of a coronation day baby in Baldock, Hertfordshire...
Last week, after solemn thought, the New York City Board of Education placed an order for 50,000 pounds of nickel-silver alloy. The purpose: to provide every schoolchild in the city with a G.I.-type identification tag bearing name, address, and (if arrangements for large-scale typing can be made) blood-type. The board hoped to have the tags ready by spring...