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Word: reflective (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passed through that ailment once, and later when I was sober enough to reflect upon it I blushed purple for being so foolish. Now I know this for a fact that you will not stick to that first girl. As your contacts widen, you will meet someone "better" and then you say she is the for you. You will keep repeating this until you have crushed many flowers on your path to flame...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...committee of deputies visits quiet Verdun. In a scene of delicate comedy they are given the run-around by officious officers, reflect dazedly afterwards that if the famed Citadel of Verdun really only contains four field pieces . . . perhaps they should have insisted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vols. XV & XVI | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

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