Word: prowls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doubt if you would find six undergraduates who would spend ten minutes competing for the post of editor. In fact, my recollection is that at the close of the academic year, when the editorial chair of the Isis was about to become vacant, the outgoing editor used to prowl about the university vainly beseeching student after student to fill the thing. A man would be anything rather than an editor. A. P. HERBERT of "Punch" New York Evening Post