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Word: gaylyn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

After the lunch hour, having swept her schoolroom, and put Mercurochrome on Gaylyn's cut finger, Miss Campbell found the going harder than in the morning. When Johnny, during a history lesson, remarked: "It sounds kind of goofy," Miss Campbell was shocked, said severely: "I don't think that's very good English." During a sluggish geography lesson that followed, Miss Campbell lost her temper, pointed her pencil, said grimly: "Listen, Doris, you go back and read slower and don't make any mistakes. You're getting to be a terrible thinker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Schoolmarm | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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