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Vocabulary Building Blocks: (27 Across) aught (NOUN) 1. A quantity of no importance. 2. The character 0. Synonyms: cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip. Derived from naught; naught is derived from Old English: na not plus wiht thing.
Did You Know? (60 Across) American artist, Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) is best known for his illustrations that graced the covers of
popular magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post. Rockwell's
favorite subjects were from everyday life, idealized in a sentimental and
humorous venue. Rockwell also created a series of paintings called The Four
Freedoms, based on FDR's principals of human rights, which the
president pronounced in his yearly message to Congress in 1941. The principals
were: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from
fear.
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