Word: pease
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The magazine was often hard to read, but-like Croly's tortured editorials, written in an agonized longhand-served its high purpose for 15 years: "to goad public opinion into being more vigilant and hospitable." When Editor Croly died in 1930, his paper went from bluestocking to parlor pink...
In The Bronx, ex-Pfc. Peter Boucouvales, paralyzed from the waist down by the bullet which had lodged in his neck, lay between clean sheets in the Veterans Administration Hospital. The corridors were cheerless, the windows dirty. His lunch of filet of sole, peas, rice, cole slaw and lemon pie...
The science of genetics is out of date and had better be revised or abandoned. Geneticists, fussing around for the last century with colored sweet peas and subnormal fruit flies, are out of touch with the real world.
The two actions were peas out of the same pod. For years the major studios, by controlling distribution, had been able to force exhibitors to take four or five grade B pictures for one star-studded hit.
Corporal Jim Newman, home from the war, had dinner in bed. He had chicken & gravy, creamed potatoes, black-eyed peas, tomatoes, buttered biscuits and iced tea. He ate hungrily, flashing appreciative grins at his mother. Looking down at him, at the skinny outline of his body under the sheet, she...