Word: etcetera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when the H.Y.P conference cracked its shell, for it was a lone eagle of a sort. Since that time conferences without end have incubated; and nowadays collegians are dazed by a maze, which must provoke indifference if not revulsion. Model Leagues of Nations, Government Councils, Guardian Conferences, Harvard Congresses, etcetera ad infinitum...
...comrade still willing to work for freedom, or a youngster who suspected that there was something rotten in the state of Italy; but among people so burdened with fear that they dared not even pronounce the Leader's holy name (they referred to Him as ''Etcetera Etcetera") nothing could happen...
...Finance, Psychology, Anthropology, Archeology, Geography, Journalism, Classical Civics, History of Art, History of Music, sociology, American Society, Biology, Education (a specialty), American Society, English French, and German Literature, ancient History, Government, Philosophy, Religion, English Constitutional History and any subject throughout the entire sweep of English Literature, novels, plays essays, etcetera." It is hardly possible that this most credite creature in view of all else he has mastered, should be a stranger to the intricate ramifications of the highly specialized art of blackmail...
...which have been running with tiresome monotony ever since, appears at the University this week, with Tom Brown, the perpetual adolescent, in the role of a medical student and Anne Shirley playing the part of a highly imaginative orphan girl whose partings from Tom furnish the heart-throbs, tears, etcetera, in "Anne of Green Gables...
...supply companies do not carry a stock of alligators exceeding four feet in length. The gila monsters are priced at $15 each while a medium sized chimpanzee costs between $500 and $600 depending on how "civilized" the animal may be. Monkeys range from four to seven dollars. Hens, ducks, etcetera, are all bought at regular market prices by the pound. Pigeons and turtles both range from a quarter to 85 cents and a Louisiana bullfrog cost a dollar. Oppossums are $4 a pair and copperheads are $8 each. Crayfish and snails both cost about a nickel each and salamanders...