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Word: squirms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have never memorized anything, Adam Baxter's remarkable reciting may make you squirm with a guilty feeling of having missed much. We felt that way for a while, but then he fell back on a hymn we've sung almost every time we've been to church, and all was well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/26/1926 | See Source »

...flagrant and even self evident! On p. 34 of your issue of Dec. 14, you say that a rat, with a "pointed grey face" fell into a Miss Rachael Galpern's "hot soap-bath"; yet a moment later you speak of the animal as "an enormous black rat!" Squirm out of that, if you can! I suppose you will say that a "black rat" can have a "grey face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 21, 1925 | 12/21/1925 | See Source »

...Them Squirm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Telegraphako! | 7/16/1923 | See Source »

...tread on anyone's toes, let them squirm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Telegraphako! | 7/16/1923 | See Source »

...those taking some form of military training. The Freshman who elected equitation to satisfy his physical training requirements will find himself, provided he is already on good terms with his horse, galloping down the Post road at a rate that will make the old hero of Put's Hill squirm under his modest tombstone in Greenwich...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BE PREPARED | 10/18/1921 | See Source »

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