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Word: might (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Catholic Sister cruelly, unless you cancelled her subscription so promptly that she did not receive the issue in which her letter and the verse appeared. If I am any judge of human nature, she at least flipped through a copy to see if her letter had been printed. You might have spared her a shock, and perhaps tears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taft Letter | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...Hall! Hall! The gang's all here!" Yes, indeed, they are all here but Mr. Thomas. Alas! Mr. Cohen, why have you not informed us of the activities and qualifications of your own candidate? In your next missive to the CRIMSON we think you might mention some of them, for we are afraid you will prejudice us in favor of his rivals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Antiphonal | 11/3/1928 | See Source »

...might have been a Rooshian, a Frenchman. Turk or Rooshian, or an Eye-tal-l-an. But in spite of all temptations he remained, or became, as the case may be, a Republican. And he went to Boston in his old clothes and several busses, and down the streets which know him, perhaps, in the soberer black and white of evening, dress he flung roses and other things riotously with the throng to the greater glory of a Presidential candidate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BIG PARADE | 11/3/1928 | See Source »

...There he might find it. It's a pity, almost, that Presidential campaigns don't come oftener. Harvard undergraduates seem to have lost the faculty of lifting themselves out of themselves among familiar surroundings, and grave doubts have arisen as to the possibility of any sublimation of the student personality. But six weeks have wrought a revelation. Anyone who has seen--and heard--his friend who is wrapped up most of the time in thirteenth-century Italy become a member of the electorate will admit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BIG PARADE | 11/3/1928 | See Source »

...horse-dars provided the most excitement. When several men were feeling good they would jump on a car and drive in towards Boston. They might push the conductor off the car, or else just take care of him inside. Sometimes they would get off at Central Square and drive back. No, they did not turn, the car around. They just boarded one coming-the other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Widener Gate-man Finds College Life More Subdued Than it Was 40 Years Ago--Regrets Passing of Horse-car Horseplay | 11/3/1928 | See Source »

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