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Shenandoah Elks Lodge gives out free dictionaries to kids

Sep 15 2011
Mary

If you were to look up the word "give" in the dictionary, it would read, "to present, to donate, to hand over."

Making sense of “Jabberwocky”

Sep 15 2011
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 Joe Mc Kay’s “Crazy about Words”
…toasting our language since 2003!

Grants dictionary project begins

Sep 13 2011
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The annual dictionary project organized by Grants Fire & Rescue has begun with the start of the new school year.

Elks Lodge donates dictionaries

Sep 13 2011
Mary

Two burly men dressed in matching green club-jackets walk down the hallways of elementary schools every fall, lugging heavy packages in both arms.

Georgia Avenue Elementary students welcome Rotarians

Sep 12 2011
Mary

The Rotary Club of Memphis East provided a dictionary to each third grader at Georgia Avenue Elementary School. We would call out a word from their current word list.

Children in Honduras receive dictionaries

Sep 09 2011
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Ken Lavy of Camden, Indiana, traveled to Honduras with a church group and visited White Dove School, where he distributed Spanish/English dictionaries to the children.

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