Word: gush
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Dates: during 1875-1875
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...author quoted is not the first to note the critical attitude of the Nation, nor the first to point out what I am pleased to call lack of gush among the undergraduates, but he certainly has all the merit attaching to the discovery of the causal relation of these two facts. In regard to the value of the discovery, I may perhaps be pardoned in quoting the stump orator who said that if the cause named had an infectious disease the effect would not catch it. If the writer would allow that the phrase "lack of gush" covered the whole...