Word: alright
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though his name is Varnoff and he wears the traditional clothes, Varnoff is a new kind of monster-maker. He makes his supermen with "the atom elements." His story also seems influenced by the development of Psychotherapy ("Here in this forsaken jungle hell I have come to prove myself alright."), though it is not known whether there was an analyst for this swamp...
...Couldn't even find a farmhouse. I was on my way back to La Mesa. Needless to say, I didn't make it. The reason the plane hit the tree I don't know. The sun was in my eyes. It sat down alright then she turned and here I am-time...
...Birmingham News, Managing Editor Charles 11 reported that there was some indication that the adults might not come off too well. Among the letters rallying to the Flesch banner, he noted that one teacher had spelled differentiate with one "f" and another wrote seperately. Several grown ups used alright for all right; one mother put two "l's" in personality, and three fathers had written such oddities as begining, forth grade, and uncerten. Editor Fell's conclusion: "A lot of grownups aren't any hotter with their spelling than some of them think you are, Johnny, with...
...limpid. His manuscripts often have to wait years of careful research before he submits them to print. His research methods, although seemingly careless, have the same painstaking quality. After be graduated from Harvard in 1911, Wolfson went on a Sheldon Fellowship to Europe theoretically for pleasurable travel. He traveled alright, but from one library to another, Paris, Parma, Rome, and Cambridge, for a year and a half, reading copiously and taking detailed, index-type notes of what he read. He took his notes on tiny scraps of paper, often not marking them, and stuffed them indiscriminately into a black folding...
...City authorities think it's alright for less conspicuous creatures to loiter. Relaxation gives a town a cosmopolitan air, and even a few of Cambridge's Finest can be seen leaning against the Three Feathers displays in a particular Square establishment. But the old ladies of DcWolf Street have been writing the mayor that the buses lying in the middle of the Square are blocking their view of the subway kiosk, and 1955 is an election year...