McGuffey
Americannoun
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“They sort of came out of nowhere and just grew exponentially,” said security industry veteran Jim McGuffey, who held senior positions at Brink’s and Loomis.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2024
Jim McGuffey, an armored car and physical security expert, called the theft “a shock.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 5, 2024
In Cincinnati, Sheriff Charmaine McGuffey said she had given three commendations for successful interventions at the county jail since her department began the program last year.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2022
Written by frontier teacher and scholar William Holmes McGuffey, the original Readers contained literary selections that promoted Calvinist ideas about salvation and piety, while later editions were secularized in keeping with the nation’s changing mores.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2020
Once there was an old schoolmaster in the southern mountains who refused to give up teaching from the McGuffey Readers despite the fact that legislation had ruled out the old familiar classics.
From Blue Ridge Country by Erskine Caldwell
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