Word: gibberish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Daily News reported "Sweaty exorcists are having less and less success . . . at the self imposed job of routing students out of their dormitories to burn red fire in the Square and mutter gibberish in unison the night before a so-called big game." The Daily News as right, for it has been spirits not spirit that have typified football weekends in the past two decades. Before the Yale game in the year of the News article the Harvard Provision Company advertised special scotch for the big game at $2.89 a fifth. A Crimson of the early '30's reported...
When it comes to the why of Barbara's plight, however, the movie goes rapidly to pieces. Like most Hollywood efforts to pin Freudian labels on human weakness, this one clutters a fairly reasonable plot with murky gibberish...
...heard from other people who have slept there. One of them heard footsteps and hoofbeats in the courtyard every evening, and finally moved away. Another was the landlady's daughter. She once felt a spot of darkness move toward her in the night and mumble some gibberish in her ear. The next morning her ear was full...
Promptly at 6, at the sound of a bell, retail buyers crowded into the slime-spattered aisles. Booted and aproned wholesalers waved samples in their faces, and shouted sales to clerks in a code gibberish by which they hoped to hide prices from competitors. By 11 a.m., nearly a million pounds of seafood had been sold. In this business-as-usual way, the biggest fish market in the world passed a historic milestone last week: it was 100 years...
Tortillas for 17. In Tennessee (average corn yield 25 bushels an acre), hybrid corn has produced 157.2 bushels an acre. The produce of one such bountiful acre would keep 17 corn-eating Mexican peas ants in tortillas for a year. Such results reduce to gibberish Vogt's theory of "biotic potential...