Word: paste
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...last year, knew he had plenty of horse left as he hit the top of the stretch. He gave the mare her head. That was all Proximity needed. She swung the 36-pound sulky out for a clear shot at the brilliantly lighted finish, breezed effortlessly past the leaders and went on to win by 2½ lengths. Said one of Proximity's admirers afterwards: "It was just as if Hodgins had stepped on an accelerator...
Harrow favored no single style. After basic drill on squared paper, its boys were left to develop their own, using as their models great manuscripts of the past six centuries which had been borrowed from the Victoria and Albert Museum...
Looking forward to the day when all U.S. colleges will turn from the past to the future, the Record concludes: "Unless a college building expresses in its architecture the advancement of thought and dissemination of knowledge which are the college's reasons for existence, that building has in some degree failed to achieve its purpose. However well it may perform mechanically. . . it fails to function philosophically or even spiritually...
Traders hoped that the market would soon steady, since it has shown remarkable ability in the past to absorb bad news...
...Levittown has very few old people. Few of its more than 40,000 residents are past 35; of some 8,000 children, scarcely 900 are more than seven years old. In front of almost every house along Levittown's 100 miles of winding streets sits a tricycle or a baby carriage. In Levittown, all activity stops from 12 to 2 in the afternoon; that is nap time. Said one Levittowner last week, "Everyone is so young that sometimes it's hard to remember how to get along with older people...