Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conduct and secondly that son is not Hendrik Willem Jr. In fact a jr. in this family does not exist, my parents being neither of them unoriginal have never been at a loss to find brand new names for their offsprings and my older brother and I have gotten sick of seeing ourselves Hendrik-van-Loon-Jr.'ed so I hope you won't mind my putting this straight. My brother, in America, is Henry Bowditch van Loon and I am Willem Gerard van Loon. On the dancing stage I leave off the van Loon...
...thousands of women students who have come in contact with Dr. Nardin in her 1,5 years' work at the university would have liked to have seen added, especially because they would have precluded any chance of an erroneous view which a too-ardent Freudian might have gotten "with half...
...turning over and sinking. Secretary of the Navy Adams, minimizing the effect of the roll on their "excellent" gunfire record, declared: "No ship, yacht or cruiser is ever exactly right at first. We've been building yachts under racing rules for 25 years and haven't yet gotten the limit of speed possible. Warships are even harder. The way to build ships is to constantly keep building them instead of trying to build all of them at once...
...baiters of the Bride, to receive polite and smiling welcome. For eight long hours, the honeymooners entertained the Press. As they posed on the beach, on the cottage steps, in the hammock, the Bride jollied her old acquaintances. One remark: "Perhaps I have a vulgar taste. I've gotten a lot of enjoyment out of reporters, riding along with me on trains, telling me about their own troubles after their long stories had been filed. I like beautiful jewelry. I love beautiful clothes, stockings that cost lots of money. I'm going to like working with my husband...
...runs obtained in the fist and second innings of the Soldiers Field contest last Saturday enabled the Harvard Freshman nine to win over the New Hampshire freshmen by a 6 to 2 score. The Crimson team solved Taraganski's pitching before the Wildcat hurler had fairly gotten his arm limbered up, garnering four hits and three runs in each of the first two innings. It was the third consecutive win for the Harvard nine, which seems to be making a mid-season recovery after commencing the spring with a series of colorless games...