Word: similars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bulletin board in front of the building, an inning-by-inning score of the Harvard-Yale baseball game at New Haven. A special wire from Yale Field will bring the results of each inning's play direct to Plympton Street, where the scores will appear earlier than on any similar bulletin in Cambridge...
...more common word, he is held in contempt by his associates. You seem to go to great length to make a display of your vocabulary. You have had a penchant for using unusual words since your publication started, and I had occasion to write to you in a similar vein a few years ago, but "the seed apparently has fallen on barren ground...
...disillusioned and mortified. Thomas makes the serpentine Cleopatra a naughty high school girl magnifying her most minute sins into heinous debauchery Anyone having entertained admiration for Shakespeare's Cleopatra whose person "beggar'd all description" will put aside "Cleopatra's Private Diary," the appetite cloyed, the effect being similar to that obtained by eating cheap chocolates...
...themselves. If they can look down upon me and laugh at my helplessness, I will show them that I, too, can laugh at myself. For together with my mortality, they have also given me a sense of humor. Otherwise I should have gone mad." Having read this and similar passages, the reader also is pleased that he has a sense of humor, for many are the possibilities of his going mad while reading the volume...
...similar fire took place in the same section of the building two months ago. The damage of yesterday's fire was estimated by Peter Raft, manager of the establishment, at between $3000 and $4000. It will not be found necessary to close the cafeteria for repairs...