Word: oft
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...destined to no ordinary way of life. The gargoyles on Memorial Hall were heard to laugh and shriek at midnight, and the ghost of Punch was seen in broad daylight astride an ibis in Mt. Auburn Street. And sure enough, as years went by, the fact was oft remarked that young Lampoon was not a common child. For hours he'd ponder over some inanity, and then would roar with laughter at his own conceit. And this, together with his marked plebeian tendencies and over-strong aversion to the Irish nation, got it whispered round that Mistress Advocate...
Last week in the hour of his success Senator Wheeler reiterated his oft expressed opinion...
...reactions to my reception at Harvard, for I certainly have not offered any opposition to the great Crimson force which has swept me along in its wide current, just as the turbulent mountain torrent whirls the tender sapling which has fallen into its power along the precipitous and oft-times fatal course...
Larger Tax Reductions. The Democratic members of the Committee are known to have in the back of their minds an idea of reducing taxes more than the amount suggested by the Treasury. They would do this by not paying oft the public debt as rapidly as at present. Their plan was not actively presented last week, but it was actively opposed by Secretary Mellon on the stand...
...last round he went out in the increditable score of 32, came in with a 34 to tie the course record, But the best his gallant effort could get him was second place. His title had been taken by Macdonald Smith, who thereby demonstrated to a skeptical world the oft-forgotten fact that the favorite sometimes wins, the know-it-alls are sometimes right...