Word: gets
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...more I thought it over, the greater appeared the value of my friend's suggestion. Instead of importuning great men like Mr. Hayes for their autographs, I might take my phonograph into Memorial Hall on the occasion of the next Alumni dinner and get his autophone...
...every one, from George Francis Train to my Goody; I set the machine going, totally forgetting that I had left it open during my absence, and had left my chum in the room. Imagine my horror, when the first thing it reeled off was, "If you don't get out of this room, you d -- poco - " I hastily awoke from my reverie, and declared that autophones were out of the question. It would n't do to subject one's conversation to so accurate a recorder...
...ball bounding sideways and thus passing Fessenden. Howe played pluckily behind the bat, and caught Ernst's pitching remarkably well for a first attempt. Thayer, Wright, Alger, Latham, and Holden played well in the field. Carter was the only man on the Yale Nine who failed to get in a base-hit; the excellence of his pitching, however, fully atoned for his poor success at the bat. Hutchison made a good stop and caught a hot liner. Clark caught a difficult fly. Parker and Downer played their positions without error...
...course I knelt to get...
...Hang it!" replied the Bell warmly. "If I ring simply to get the men to breakfast I'll hold my tongue hereafter...