Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American educators in China have spread the doctrine of revolution by giving prominence to American history textbooks. From these many Chinese have gotten the idea that a new era dawned on the world when the American colonies broke away from England. Believing that American greatness began with revolution, the Chinese have followed suit with revolutionary movements of their own. . . . Someone ought to protest against such dissemination in the Orient of the poisonous idea that revolution is a necessary antecedent to prosperity...
...first half of the ten minute overtime period also failed to produce any score, and the teams changed sides for the final five minutes of the encounter. Scarcely 30 seconds later Howard was sent off the ice for clipping, and B.U. seemed to have gotten the deciding break. But in Harvard's darkest moment a bright star arose in the form of Scott who, checking Lawless near the Crimson cage, seized the puck, dashed up the right lane and eluding Gibson and Captain Viano, gained the mouth of the B. U. cage. His high shot which found the Terrier...
...Palos went down river to Shanghai early last spring for overhaul and since then has never gotten further up river than Ichang, although she has been badly needed on the upper stretch, and has made several attempts. Chungking residents have a popular ditty to the tune of "Parlez-vous," the two essential lines of which...
...These are facts that cannot be gotten around by hifalutin talk about the beauty of Southern women and the chivalry of Southern men," said the professor of English...
...difficult to understand how the Vare machine has gotten away with so much graft regularly for many years and remained unexposed. City machines in themselves are not necessarily bad. Tammany Hall is, on the whole, a good example of the efficient, reasonably clean type. The Vare machine on the other hand, appears to be the most flagrantly vicious in the country. One wonders what the Committee of Seventy in supposedly civic reform league organized several decades ago, has been doing all this time to justify its existence...