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Word: hoorah (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...local earthquake. They even went so far as to whip Voltaire's poor old-Candide because he had merely seen a Portuguese eat a piece of bacon. Now it is the astronomer's turn to be whipped. And some people even hope that jazz and the hip-hoorah of modern Pep will drown the roar of the sidereal universe. None of these, of course, considers that one shift of the celestial pole in a mere 25,000 years will make grass grow on the present north pole and put jelly fish in even the most modern of our office buildings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COUPLE OF IMMENSITIES | 12/8/1922 | See Source »

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