Word: ole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pick me a Dacey, Ole Man Mose is Hal-most dead. "Hallett hurts," he groaned to the Young Sargeant who held his closed Pfister...
First good figure for light's speed was obtained in 1676 by a Danish astronomer, Ole Roemer, who measured the variations in eclipse times of Jupiter's satellites according to Earth's distance from that planet. His calculation was only about 3% too high. First terrestrial measurement was made in 1849 by Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau of France, who passed a beam of light through the teeth of a spinning cogwheel. The light struck a mirror, bounced back to the wheel. The wheel had been timed to move just enough in the brief interim for the teeth...
...other Crimson point scorer was Bruce Richardson, who won his point in the first match he wrestled in the tournament. Captain Harvey Ross deserves particular mention for his tough fight against Ole Oless of Lehigh in the first round. Oless, who trimmed down to 121 from his usual 128 pound weight, won his way to the finals, but was finally defeated by Bob Mathers of Penn State...
...First important native play was The Contrast, in which the homespun hero, disdaining fashionable life, states his preference for "Tabitha, her Bible, a cow, and a little peaceable bundling." In an early Negro play, the white author's ear for dialogue produced: "I don't know what ole missee can see in him to make her likee him so much but I must holee my tongue...
...OLE PLANTATION...