Word: cozens
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...always been one of our secret ambitions to cozen one of those impeccably smug young men who glide around examination halls, dealing out bluebooks, and making noisome speeches. But it appears that someone beat us to it. There was, it appears, a wager between two amiable fellows, the gist of which was that proctors were or were not worth their salt. And the upshot was that the more intelligent of the two had to prove his point...