Word: reckons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...older universities have the youngest one to reckon with. Besides the largest endowment,* Duke University (Durham, N. C.), has an enviable climate and the true quiet of academe. A combination of these assets has already enabled Duke to take from Harvard that pre-eminent psychologist, Dr. William McDougall. Dr. McDougall said he had been happy at Harvard but could not resist Duke's offer. Many another famed professor is happy where he is, but boards of trustees are watching nervously to see who next will be unable to resist the prospect of Ducal paradise...
...fool to carry on with a baby like 'Peaches'," Bob Lampoon told a Crimson reporter yesterday at his home 22 Grand Street. "It's just like he was going around with his own daughter. She ain't so good-looking either, but she knows what's what. I reckon her to be about 20, and just anxious to get into the public's eye. She's just silly, and I don't know why so many women rush to that there court to hear all that trash. But its 'spicy' and that's what the women want. I wouldn...
...still maintain many characteristics of the small village in Hanover, and among these I should reckon the telegraph hours on Sunday...
...Finally one of them, a youth about sixteen spoke up: I reckon I know what y'u air from Mister. Y'u air from Mississippi stet...
...pictorial presentation of the truism that when society proposes, the politician has no choice but to dispose. He may sit on the lid as cartoonists so often picture him, or he may let the cat prematurely out of the bag in the metaphor of conservatives; but government will ultimately reckon with all outstanding social evils...