Word: couldn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clapped his hands as unemployed turned somersaults in a physical training class and exclaimed, "Jolly good! You are very clever to be able to do all these things. We couldn't do them...
...boar. He told his story with becoming modesty: "Bryson saw the tracks and said, 'Get in front.' About that time he pointed out two boars in a briar patch. I tried to shoot the big one, but I started shaking and my eyes watered until I couldn't see. When I got control of myself the big one was gone. I shot at the smaller one and he went down. We got close and had to shoot three more times to kill...
...issue you use the word "logorrheic"-I nearly fell off the chair when I read it, hurried to my Oxford Dictionary (last edition) but it wasn't listed. This morning I couldn't find it in the office dictionary and now I am bothered. Where did you get it and what does it mean? MAURICE AGGELER...
...highest honor that Science can bestow. Asked by newshawks to say something about his "outside interests," Nobelist Anderson grinned: "In my younger school days my ambition was to become a track star, a high jumper. But it didn't work, and now my hobby is tennis. I just couldn't jump high enough...
...couldn't spare much time, so he took a night Pullman from Chicago to Memphis, chartered a plane there, came on to Monroe, arriving in time to make his speech, hurrying out to the airport immediately he had finished and flew to Memphis in time to get a night train back to Chicago. He paid the entire expense of the trip himself. He lost one day from his Chicago paper, but his good sportsmanship and courtesy to the Louisiana newspaper publishers and editors will not soon be forgotten. Behind that tough exterior you paint in such bitter colors...