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Word: dormer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dressed as a plain surveyor, bespattered with muddy water, a stranger registered in the Old Gilcher House, Danville, Ky., and was assigned to an attic bedroom with a dormer window, a shuck-mattress bed and tallow-dip candle, in the late '60s. The unknown guest demanded a decent room for the night, which infuriated the clerk who sized up the stranger and exclaimed: "That room is plenty good for the looks of you." Instantly the infuriated "surveyor" wrote across the page of the hotel register: "Surveyors: Locate the road just far enough away from Danville so its citizens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 2, 1934 | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

...summary: ANDOVER HARVARD 1935 Hall, g. g., England Washburn, l.f.b. r.f.b., Irving Bird, r.f.b. l.f.b., Kingsley Preston, l.h.b. r.h.b., Wemple, Fuess Faweett, c.h.b. c.h.b., Coleman, Wemple Dormer, r.h.b. l.h.b., McGoodwin Vincent, l.o.f. r.o.f., Grover Darling, l.i.f. r.i.f., Reed, Gaggin, Russell Upton, c.f. c.f., Clos Williams, Bartow, r.i.f. l.i.f., Stork Badger, r.o.f. l.o.f., Robbins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SECOND UNIVERSITY AND 1935 SOCCER TEAMS ARE BEATEN | 10/29/1931 | See Source »

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