Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...captain said. "Everyone was in it. Just a family affair...
...Nott was not shot or that Nott was that not with standing. It may be made to appear on trial that the shot Shott shot shot Nott or, as accidents with firearms are frequent, it may be possible that the shot Shott shot shot himself, when the whole affair would resolve itself into the original element and Shott would be shot and Nott would be not. I think that the shot Shott that shot, not Shott, but Nott. Anyway, it is difficult to tell who was shot. In short either Shott or Nott fired their thirty-thirty like sixty...
...gloom in which our last column was written -- remember that baseball affair -- has been partially dispelled. There is now a new competition for chronic gripers. We can all play some more and then gripe about the umpires and anything else which comes to mind. "If so-and-so had only played so-and-so we would have...
...originated in man's characteristic gestures of the tongue and lips (e.g., blowing air through the larynx while making the gestures of eating produces mnyum, mnyuh). Dr. Thorndike calls this the "yum-yum" theory, waves it aside with the others as inadequate. His own explanation is "a humdrum affair": man discovered words by sheer accident...
Well, here it is, almost a week since the N.T.S. Pop's Concert and I can still remember what a swell affair it was and how much fun we all had, not to mention the whole two and one-half ours added liberty...