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Word: aversion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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The Speaker avers that the President's selective draft bill cannot pass. Let us hope he is as good a prophet as he was when he declared last spring that the McLemore "scuttle" resolution was bound to win. Boston Post.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clark's Foolishness. | 4/27/1917 | See Source »

Perhaps the argument was too locally applied. A correspondent of the Nation wishes to extend the conclusion "to cover the question what American men in general talk about." This writer complains that at gatherings of college men he is entertained only with "lectures by Walter This or Big Bill That...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "SIR, WE HAD A GOOD TALK." | 12/14/1915 | See Source »

Barring the first book review, the November Monthly has taken an aggressive, straightforward tone fairly free from convention and happily from preciosity, Professor Francke's featured article on "Germany's Hope," that is, individual subordination to ideal advance of the state, would have conveyed its point with somewhat less iteration...

Author: By P. W. Long ., | Title: P. W. Long '98 Commends Monthly | 11/5/1914 | See Source »

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