Word: fain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...states with glee that the highest mark received by any of these men was 55 and that one of the students was able to amass a total only nine points lower. Most pleasing, however, to the editors of the paper is the fact that several of their taskmasters would fain avoid answering the questions put to them and attempted to pass the buck to a colleague...