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Word: mayhap (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mayhap, it was the dreary weather and the drafty atmosphere atop Memorial Hall that saddened the Vagabond last night. Moving day comes the first of May, he recalled and by then Spring too would have come and there would be no sense in moving. Ah, the futility of it all, he mused...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/6/1931 | See Source »

...Dartmouth's gala Winter Carnival goes many a comely young woman to dance, to watch winter sports, mayhap to taste beverages from Canada, hard by. As convention demands, chaperons are present, a precaution against possible irregularities. Most undergraduates at most colleges regard chaperonage as an unnecessary appendage to a good party. Unless they be their female relatives, chaperons get little attention from the male revelers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Chaperons | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

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