Word: dint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Californians were not surprised at his decision, nor at his wisecrack about it. During 16 years in California politics, 44-year-old Bob Kenny had advanced steadily by dint of "a series of political suicides." For a long time after abandoning a career as a foreign correspondent (for U.P.) to become a lawyer-politician, he had even refused to take on a party label-"I was afraid to be a Democrat and ashamed to be a Republican." He had never bridled his sharp tongue. But able, personable Bob Kenny had led a charmed life in politics...
...probably seen most of Twain's witticisms in the Render's Digest and know his boyhood adventures by dint of having read "Tom Sawyer"; nevertheless "The Adventures of Mark Twain" is a worthwhile evening's entertainment...
...when you get back these first Report marks. But don't crease your manly brows, we both got "Unsat's" in our first report. That frightened the life out of us. So we went to work, as Gil Cross puts it, "to got this Harvard system down cold." By dint of hard work, clean living, and being nice to the markers, we can now boast that we have lifted our marks up to a high Low Pass...
Groaning under record loads of passengers and freight, short of men, shy of equipment, U.S. railroads have chugged along by dint of many a huff, puff and prayer, and some luck. Now their luck seemed to be running...
...just off Cooper Square, where Manhattan's skidroad-the Bowery-ends. McSorley's has also provided a haven for Manhattan's literary transients-writers, newshawks, painters, poets (grateful Poet e. e. cummings once immortalized mcsorley's: "Inside snug and evil. ... the Bar tinkling luscious jigs dint of ripe silver with warmlyish wetflat splurging smells waltz the glush of squirting taps. . . ." The venerable saloon still has soup bowls instead of cash registers, gas lights over the bar, a rack of clay and corncob pipes for free smokes on the house. Under portraits of Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley...