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Word: mayhap (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Others beside the CRIMSON have called the Widener murals glorified war posters, but hitherto these persons have avoided being heralded as boyish, mayhap because of their rather obvious graying hair. Few will question the aptness or the simile who have not been prepared for the first sight of these works by a careful instruction as to their hallowed origin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACK TO THE WALL | 6/4/1929 | See Source »

...report card with an A in Conventional Religion 1. It is better perhaps not to consider the fate of the always possible naughty boy who by a miscalculation or the failure of the alarm clock rates the abhorred FF. Shunned by his believing classmates, his allowance cut-off mayhap from home, he is left only the chance of staying in a game with a double ante...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALL GOD'S CHILLUN GET A's | 2/12/1929 | See Source »

Lest lapses should be chronic Mayhap this futile little rime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 10, 1928 | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...Pennsy is not sole in its extensive plans. The New York Central a few months ago consulted with General Electric to electrify its tracks along the Hudson River from Manhattan towards Albany, and mayhap to Buffalo. And practically every other large system has plans, more or less detailed, in the same vein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Electrified Pennsy R. R. | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...delight in the misfortunes of their "boss;" that it pleased them to know that the man whose name was painted with spotless gold upon a thousand red facades, whose fame for righteousness and reformation was as large as his fame for wealth, was after all no better than themselves; mayhap, not even as good. A year and a half ago, Kresge wrote to Senator James Couzens, asking him for a $1,000 contribution to a girl's home. With a larger check, the senator sent Kresge some advice. This was the advice: "I do not know whether you have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: Kresge's Gifts | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

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