At that time,researchers studied more than seven hundred American soldiers who had had their spleens removed because of battle injuries.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

The farmer who had promised to take care of the farm while her husband was away had been lazy and dishonest.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

Old-timers used it to describe a man who had just arrived from one of the big cities back east.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

This is compared to half of students who had looked for a job by this time two years ago.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

They saw Grant as a strong and silent soldier a great leader who had won a long and bitter war.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

In nineteen forty-five, there were not many jobs open to a black man, even someone who had attended college.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

He attended the opening of a new burial place for the Union soldiers who had died in the great battle there.

VOA: special.2009.11.05

The wide flat grasslands seemed strange to men who had lived among the hills and forests of the east.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

The researchers found that those who had been circumcised were twenty-eight percent less likely to get genital herpes than uncircumcised men.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

Adolph Bandelier was researching the history and social organization of the American Indians who had lived there for centuries.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

"The trouble in the street was caused by a man who had almost been run over by a horse and carriage.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

Some who had opposed the treaty now agreed with the Washington Star newspaper that "the Filipinos must be taught to obey."

VOA: special.2010.07.22

The position of Secretary of State went to James Blaine, who had refused his party's requests to run for president.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

For the wise man who had led the Union through four years of bloody civil war Father Abraham -- was dead.

VOA: special.2010.01.07