Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Twelve minutes later (3.58), administration was started again and was continued for 15 minutes with the patient quite cooperative. Ten minutes after the removal of the mask, he was quite sober, remorseful and swore off liquor; he asked where he was and how he had gotten there. To all appearances, he could have been discharged...
...magnificent, record against Yale during the past year. Harvard won a relay race, and a chess match, and that's about all. Now they have snatched the hockey championship from under our very noses. O tempora! O Moses! Can such things be? We might at least have gotten Tad Jones and a couple of athletes in exchange for Professor Baker. G. T. Chase...
This man came to college for an education. He had gotten what he wanted out of the course. The examination was a superfluity, and he was superior to such trifles...
...anybody is to grow up. Growing old is only part of it; if you don't grow up, how can you grow old? People start by making believe they are grown up and then, the first thing they know, they are. The look at their faces, which have gotten lined or baggy or twisted with pretending to be grown up, and they say "That is I." Sometimes they say "That is me"; then there is still hope for them. A. A. Milne, who wrote this book, is not like these people. He is good at making-believe...
...They catch your glance, they wink, edge over. It is no drink that they want, no sandwich, no news about a pretty thing in the second race. They want to impart something. For these are the fallen kings of boxing,' they who have knocked out champions and never gotten credit for it, who have been champions and are forgotten. Will one of these sidling, loquacious ones ever be a huge brown Argentine with a mane like a privet hedge? Luis Angel Firpo, will he ever tell unbelievers how he was "cheated" out of the boxing crown of South America...