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The WPA built the main building at my school.WPA = Depression-era jobs program
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The WPA built that bridge in 1942.
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If he held his mouth right, Mr. Cunningham could get a WPA job, but his land would go to ruin if he left it, and he was willing to go hungry to keep his land and vote as he pleased. (source)
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It was the pre-relief, pre-WPA world of the depression. (source)WPA = largest of the Depression era relief measures that put millions to work
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I went to work for the state office of the Works Progress Administration as junior publicity agent.† (source)
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In the 1930s and early 1940s, workers from the Works Progress Administration made a series of recordings and photographs in this part of Texas.† (source)
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Mr. MacAdorey tells Dad there's work with the WPA and when he gets the work there's money for food and Mam leaves the bed to clean the twins and to feed us.† (source)WPA = largest of the Depression era relief measures that put millions to work
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I studied the situation, then laid the matter before white friends of mine who held influential positions in the Works Progress Administration.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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These WPA men had built a band shell in the town; sidewalks; some sewers.† (source)
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I went to work for the state office of the Works Progress Administration as junior publicity agent.† (source)
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The street was finally paved under the WPA program, and a new realty company picked up the mortgage on the buildings.† (source)
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I telephoned my white friends in the Works Progress Administration: "Transfer me at once to another job, or I'll be murdered.† (source)
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He handled it poorly when, one cold afternoon in early spring, on their way to Yosemite, she suggested they splurge and stay at the historic Ahwahnee Hotel, a grand WPA-era jewel of rustic western architecture.† (source)
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Many of the men and women carrying placards were old friends of mine, and they were chanting for higher wages for Works Progress Administration artists and writers.† (source)
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That winter I had a spell of the WPA.† (source)
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Beyond this is bare red clay scattered with water pipes and heaps of black dirt—an uncompleted WPA project.† (source)
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