Word: aught
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through the gusty streets of Edinburgh, where (except for U. S. trippers, itinerant golfers and English merchants seeking financial advice) you seldom see aught but Scotsmen, there walked last week a Chinaman and a Swede, a Dane and an Italian, a Swiss, a Greek, a Frenchman, a Hungarian, a Belgian, a Czecho-Slovakian, a German, a Persian. Americans were there. Colonials from Canada, India, Rhodesia, were there; swarthy sons, also, of Spain and of Hayti. Almost all pedagogs, they awaited the gavel-tap of the Rt. Hon. Sir John Gilmour, His Majesty's Secretary for Scotland, indicative of the opening...
...innings. The picture of the college swallowed, hide, hair and hoofs, by the graduate structure of the university has been flashed before us. The club system has been given Hector's ride around the walls. They're still there and they'll probable remain there for aught our diagnosing and I don't know as I know why they shouldn't. If there's one thing that can and will change them it's the same evolution of things that's causing all the worry...
...aught that I could ever read...
Said the Governor, in effect: "Have you caught aught...
...will not mar this occasion by any argument, explanatory or defensive, in regard to the matter that has clouded my days and shadowed my nights. I come neither asking forgiveness nor bowed down with shame; but proudly to proclaim to you that I have done no wrong nor aught that merits rebuke from you, my dearest friends...