Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speak of thirteen months, no one of which has more than twenty-eight days, would seem to be "a most ingenious parodox." Children need no longer waste their idle kindergarten hours learning that "thirty days hath September--" or that leap year comes only once in four. This would mean a simplified education in perfect harmony with the modern tendency among older people to master the French language in a dozen lessons from a correspondence school...
...term "Realtor" was coined in 1916 and defined by the National Association of Real Estate Boards to mean a person engaged in the real estate business who is an active member of a Member Board of the National Association of Real Estate Boards...
Thus the debate, with Senator Borah's defense easily twisted into an admission that the treaty did not mean very much of anything anyhow. Meanwhile the fact remained that the treaty would, in all probability pass the Senate, and the prevailing opinion seemed to be that no reservations would be attached to it. Mr. Borah may come out, however, not so much with an instrument that "outlaws war" as with a guarded and general international announcement that war is an extremely deplorable weapon to be used only when a nation really feels it must...
...because I had so often thought of myself as being--well--like that, if you know what I mean--I mean, I thought of myself as full of--well--things, if you want to put it that way, which not every man could open up. So that you can imagine how I felt when I met this other man from Harvard, who was on the Lampoon, He read it. He kept calling it "your stuff", which was rather nice of him, I thought...
...that is my besetting fault, I know. But at the same time that is probably why I can get along with men, because there are so few girls who give of themselves, if you know what I mean. I mean, there are so few girls who really give of themselves. And as a result they never have any men that they can really call friends. From the time I reached the age, if you know what I mean, I always wanted men to be my friends. To be completely the woman, as that Lampoon boy said, and yet to have...