Word: aver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sierra Nevadas will unfold countless new types of ski runs before the eyes of the Harvard parallel slat addict, much-traveled members of the Crimson ski team aver. He will be confronted with fabulously long runs, deep snow, steeper grades, and, in many instances, frustrating and maniacally devised slalom courses marked by 150 pines...
...unfailing puzzle to the working members of the press ... why so many otherwise solid ... dental appliance mechanics, casket designers ... and scooter salesmen should feel a compulsion to aver 'You know, I used to be a newspaper man myself once.' Usually, it turns out that the man covered hockey for the Harvard Crimson, and is now earning his ulcers as a radio account executive...
...neighbors of the Motilones, even the well-armed oilmen, suffered from Indian jitters. They told of fearsome raids, with 40 or 50 Indians bursting out of the jungle. The raids were real enough, and they happened constantly. But after studying the tracks of the raiders, Holder decided that the aver age party consisted of one adult Indian, one woman or adolescent and one small child. Such a primitive task force, he thinks, slips at night through a village or oil camp, picking up tools or bits of metal
Except for two Rembrandts, the paintings at the National Gallery were mostly minor masterpieces by such Dutch genre and landscape painters as Steen, Aver-camp and Van der Neer. They added up to $1,000,000 worth of intimate history from a flat, fat land. The loan show was starting a one-year tour of the 114 U.S. museums which had supplied men for the Army's fine arts section. It had been selected by Art Professor Alphons Voren-kamp of Smith College (who helped identify many of the paintings when he was a wartime lieutenant colonel...
...aver (TIME, Oct. 7) that Wisbech rhymes with fizz peach. Not so. I've been stationed in the neighborhood [Cambridgeshire, England] for several, months, and can authoritatively state that it is pronounced "whiz bitch." What's the matter, do you think bitch is a nasty word...