Word: couldn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Timisoara, Rumania, a tax collector told bankrupt Merchant Stoianovici to ''go hang himself if he couldn't pay his taxes. Merchant Stoianovici complied...
...boyish escapades, capped by a miraculous escape from drowning, Odin leaves home to join his father. "It was queer to be walking like this all alone on a strange road. And he had felt the same when he was a little boy, sometimes: it was as though you couldn't believe in what you saw. It was just as grand for all that. And it was good for a man: to be alone...
...Japanese, Jiro Sato. Against Austin, Vines was just as good as he had been against Crawford. Their match was over in 45 minutes, 6-4, 6-2, 6-0. Austin watched Vines's last serve, an ace, go past, then ran up to shake hands. Said he: "I couldn't play against that...
...word while we were hanging there and they didn't make any sound when they lost their holds and fell. I saw them drop off, but I didn't see them hit the ground. I wouldn't let myself look. I heard them hit though-I couldn't help that. It sounded like a bucket of water poured out on the deck. You know how that is—:just a splash...
...committee of a recent class, which shall not be named, that he has been unable to secure from the Flit Company costumes, nice orange ones with a headband reading F-L-I-T, to be worn on the day of the Yale baseball game. "We tried to, but we couldn't manage it," this official ingenuously confessed...