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Chapter XXXVII · Chapter 37

Chapter 37 of Main Street is here in full — 83 sentences across 17 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

By Sinclair Lewis • Curated US English Learning Edition

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I SHE found employment in the Bureau of War Risk Insurance.

Though the armistice with Germany was signed a few weeks after her coming to Washington, the work of the bureau continued.

She filed correspondence all day; then she dictated answers to letters of inquiry.

It was an endurance of monotonous details, yet she asserted that she had found “real work.”

Disillusions she did have.

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Chapter XXXVII Reading 1/16

Main Street

Chapter XXXVII · Chapter 37

Chapter 37 of Main Street is here in full — 83 sentences across 17 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/16 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1

I SHE found employment in the Bureau of War Risk Insurance.

Line 2

Though the armistice with Germany was signed a few weeks after her coming to Washington, the work of the bureau continued.

Line 3

She filed correspondence all day; then she dictated answers to letters of inquiry.

Line 4

It was an endurance of monotonous details, yet she asserted that she had found “real work.”

Line 5

Disillusions she did have.

All words in this reading · 49

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a

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From this reading Though the armistice with Germany was signed a few weeks after her coming to Washington, the work of the bureau continued.

after

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From this reading Though the armistice with Germany was signed a few weeks after her coming to Washington, the work of the bureau continued.

all

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From this reading She filed correspondence all day; then she dictated answers to letters of inquiry.

an

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From this reading It was an endurance of monotonous details, yet she asserted that she had found “real work.”

answers

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From this reading She filed correspondence all day; then she dictated answers to letters of inquiry.

armistice

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From this reading Though the armistice with Germany was signed a few weeks after her coming to Washington, the work of the bureau continued.

asserted

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From this reading It was an endurance of monotonous details, yet she asserted that she had found “real work.”

Bureau

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From this reading I SHE found employment in the Bureau of War Risk Insurance.

coming

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From this reading Though the armistice with Germany was signed a few weeks after her coming to Washington, the work of the bureau continued.

continued

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From this reading Though the armistice with Germany was signed a few weeks after her coming to Washington, the work of the bureau continued.

correspondence

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From this reading She filed correspondence all day; then she dictated answers to letters of inquiry.

day

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From this reading She filed correspondence all day; then she dictated answers to letters of inquiry.

details

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From this reading It was an endurance of monotonous details, yet she asserted that she had found “real work.”

dictated

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From this reading She filed correspondence all day; then she dictated answers to letters of inquiry.

did

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From this reading Disillusions she did have.

Disillusions

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From this reading Disillusions she did have.

employment

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From this reading I SHE found employment in the Bureau of War Risk Insurance.

endurance

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From this reading It was an endurance of monotonous details, yet she asserted that she had found “real work.”

few

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From this reading Though the armistice with Germany was signed a few weeks after her coming to Washington, the work of the bureau continued.

filed

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From this reading She filed correspondence all day; then she dictated answers to letters of inquiry.

found

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From this reading I SHE found employment in the Bureau of War Risk Insurance.

Germany

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From this reading Though the armistice with Germany was signed a few weeks after her coming to Washington, the work of the bureau continued.

had

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From this reading It was an endurance of monotonous details, yet she asserted that she had found “real work.”

have

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From this reading Disillusions she did have.

her

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From this reading Though the armistice with Germany was signed a few weeks after her coming to Washington, the work of the bureau continued.

I

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From this reading I SHE found employment in the Bureau of War Risk Insurance.

in

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From this reading I SHE found employment in the Bureau of War Risk Insurance.

inquiry

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From this reading She filed correspondence all day; then she dictated answers to letters of inquiry.

Insurance

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From this reading I SHE found employment in the Bureau of War Risk Insurance.

It

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From this reading It was an endurance of monotonous details, yet she asserted that she had found “real work.”

letters

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From this reading She filed correspondence all day; then she dictated answers to letters of inquiry.

monotonous

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From this reading It was an endurance of monotonous details, yet she asserted that she had found “real work.”

of

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From this reading I SHE found employment in the Bureau of War Risk Insurance.

real

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From this reading It was an endurance of monotonous details, yet she asserted that she had found “real work.”

Risk

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From this reading I SHE found employment in the Bureau of War Risk Insurance.

SHE

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From this reading I SHE found employment in the Bureau of War Risk Insurance.

signed

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From this reading Though the armistice with Germany was signed a few weeks after her coming to Washington, the work of the bureau continued.

that

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From this reading It was an endurance of monotonous details, yet she asserted that she had found “real work.”

the

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From this reading I SHE found employment in the Bureau of War Risk Insurance.

then

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From this reading She filed correspondence all day; then she dictated answers to letters of inquiry.

Though

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From this reading Though the armistice with Germany was signed a few weeks after her coming to Washington, the work of the bureau continued.

to

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From this reading Though the armistice with Germany was signed a few weeks after her coming to Washington, the work of the bureau continued.

War

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From this reading I SHE found employment in the Bureau of War Risk Insurance.

was

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From this reading Though the armistice with Germany was signed a few weeks after her coming to Washington, the work of the bureau continued.

Washington

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From this reading Though the armistice with Germany was signed a few weeks after her coming to Washington, the work of the bureau continued.

weeks

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From this reading Though the armistice with Germany was signed a few weeks after her coming to Washington, the work of the bureau continued.

with

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From this reading Though the armistice with Germany was signed a few weeks after her coming to Washington, the work of the bureau continued.

work

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From this reading Though the armistice with Germany was signed a few weeks after her coming to Washington, the work of the bureau continued.

yet

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From this reading It was an endurance of monotonous details, yet she asserted that she had found “real work.”

Chapter 37 of Main Street by Sinclair Lewis holds 83 sentences, grouped into 17 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.

What does chapter 37 of Main Street contain?

Chapter 37 holds 83 sentences of Main Street, unabridged, divided into 17 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 37 of Main Street by Sinclair Lewis exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 83 sentences, grouped into 17 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.

How do I study chapter 37 of Main Street?

Work through the 17 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.

Each of the 17 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.

Can chapter 37 be read aloud to me?

Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 37 can be played aloud in United States English.

Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.

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