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Word: dox (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...each meeting a Clerk is appointed to gather the "sense of the meeting" on a given subject, reduce it to a minute for the meeting's approval. Quakers find the method makes up in unity for what it loses in dispatch. Its one big failure: the Hicksite-Orth-dox schism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In One Spirit | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

...Goates missed Saturday evening moss. They were already "out" for the evening ... Joe Flaig finally broko into Wellesley ... In a nice way of course ... Jack Perlman reports that there is absolutely no truth in the rumors heard about the food in Harvard Union ... Mike J. Horn enjoyed Dorris Dox's party last Saturday evening out in Dorchester. It was a rail trip to got there, but Mike reports the expedition will worth while ... Anything that happened to his company's personnel at the Regimental Hall last week this column knows nothing about and is not responsible for ... Norm Bradley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Beachcombers of Company D | 4/2/1943 | See Source »

Food, especially pudding, inspires British schoolboys to a "peculiarly revolting form of humor" (e.g., maggots-in-milk-rice pudding; cats' eyes-in-phlegm-sago pudding). For their headmasters they have many names: the Boss, the Chief, the Dox, the Twig, the Pot (also Jerry). A chambermaid is a skivvy, a woman, a hag. Tea, coffee or cocoa is hogwash or pigswill. A boy who studies hard, swots, is treated with the contempt which he deserves. Many and lurid are the names for a new boy: new brat, new squit, new scum, fresh herring. Richest and nastiest is the group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Schoolboy Slang | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

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