Topics: Famous Americans: Thomas Edison; Liberia; symposium versus workshop versus seminar; to account for; Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. Words: inventor prodigious practical phonograph patent entrepreneur te...
Topics: Ask an American: The value of church services; outbreak versus break out; to pull off versus to pull over versus to pull in; to act silly Words: invest church synagogue to overlook value pastor to commit suicide halo sacred demonstrable impac...
Topics: American Presidents: Theodore Roosevelt; The Folk Tales of Uncle Remus; drug versus pill versus tablet; pronouncing ?; engagement versus commitment Words: sickly disillusioned spoils system to declare rough trust canal at odds with folk tale...
Topics: McCarthyism and the House Committee on Un-American Activities; Famous Songs: Dixie; to overrate versus to overestimate; that versus so; the stakes are too high Words: McCarthyism Red Scare to play on demagogue hearing to blacklist to change (...
Topics: Famous Americans: Jesse Owens; National Science Foundation; plea versus appeal versus petition; somewhat versus somehow; Is that all? Words: track and field Jim Crow law segregation obstacle world record to boycott autograph ticker-tape parad...
Topics: The Lewis and Clark Expedition; Famous Authors: Anne Rice; to generate versus to create versus to make; a tad off target; run-on sentence Words: expedition corps to lay claim to navigable fur trapper to split up journal manifest destiny bicen...
Topics: Ask an American: driving while texting; ground versus soil versus land; as such; pupil versus people Words: eyewitness report to lose control apparent median to clip to flip distraction visual to glance manual cognitive to take (ones) mind of...
Topics: Movie: 2001: A Space Odyssey; Bozo the Clown; kind of versus so-so versus more or less; firm versus company; to get + participle Words: odyssey concurrently plot extra-terrestrial cryogenically frozen to read lips to sneak to coincide with cl...
Topics: American Presidents: Abraham Lincoln; to rise versus to raise versus to arise; rather than versus prefer; to tender (ones) resignation Words: humble origins log cabin itinerant teacher to fall into debt oratorical abolitionist debate to seced...
Topics: Famous Americans: Al Capone; The U.S. Military Academy at West Point; to crash versus to shatter versus to smash; how about you? versus what about you?; bite me Words: odd job gang mentor scar to bribe to culminate massacre to lock (someone)...