Word: gird
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Comrades, gird your swords tonight...
Every presidential aspirant began to count his fingers and then his toes. "The race of 1924 is open to all," said he, "Gird on my sandals...
...harder in their years at preparatory school than they ever do afterwards in college, are inevitably influenced by the contrasting difficulties of admission to the various universities whose fame is greatest throughout the land. Certainly the Harvard requirements are not of such a kind as to make school student gird up his intellectual loins for further frenzied effort...