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Word: drowsiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...author of the text he had just put aside had a great deal of information about the Middle Ages, undoubtedly remarkable, and perhaps even useful, but could that author transform his dry, textbook style into such sonorous periods and ringing phrases as were went to keep even the drowsiest Freshman from nodding at nine o'clock in the morning? And even if his author could deliver such a lecture, thought Vag, could he hold to the measured pace of his biweekly oration through a series of shrill bursts from a dozen alarm clocks scattered strategically throughout New Lecture Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 10/7/1941 | See Source »

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