Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of the $99,331.38 discrepancy, the 1918 job is the same one the King of the Safecrackers is claiming credit for, the old boy may have to start shelling out some of his boasted 15,000,000 ill-gotten dollars for a good lawyer...
...matter what his courses-on mortgages, notes and bills, evidence or crime-he gave them all with the same intensity. Phi Beta Kappas have flunked them and law-review editors have gotten Ds. Once he gave such a stiff examination that 31 out of his 35 students failed it. Later, the students gave him a dinner and presented him with a medal. On it was etched the motto of Verdun: Ils ne passeront pas (They shall not pass...
...races, starting at 1 p.m. and lasting until after 6 p.m., will also include races between various female aggregations gotten up for the occasion. Yale, however, will not enter its first team in the ARA's as it did last year, and doesn't plan even bringing any of her lower echelon oarsmen. Her unexpected entry of her first varsity and subsequent sweep of the small college eights at the ARA regatta in Philadelphia last year has apparently proved enough sustenance for her publicity department for some years to come...
Most important of these changes involves Myles Huntington. Huntington broke his left shoulder in the last hockey game of the year and was believed lost for the entire baseball season. However, he has gradually gotten back into shape and for the last two weeks has been working out regularly...
...Francke had gotten together enough money for the present building, most of it given by Adolphus Busch, of brewery fame. The work was completed just about the time the U. S. entered the war, but anti-German feeling was so strong that the building did not open until 1921. Rumors circulated in Cambridge that the Museum was a German spy center; other reports asserted that the building's concrete foundations had been especially designed as an enemy gun emplacement...