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Word: swear (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speak the King's English, but I can swear in the English vernacular. . . . I distrust the professor and the pedant. Give me a burly man of bone and gristle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: King v. Brains | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...these barriers being safely surmounted, the candidate must swear the oath of allegiance and pledge himself to serve in the Army for eight years after his admission to West Point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROAD TO WEST POINT IS STREWN WITH BARRIERS | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

Wisconsin Any elector who has not registered may swear in his vote by his affidavit substantiated by the affidavit of two freeholders. The procedure is as follows: At the time the voter offers to vote, he delivers to the election inspectors his affidavit in which he states that he is a resident of the election district in which he offers to vote, naming the district, that he is entitled to vote therein, that he has resided in the election district ten days preceding election, giving the street and number of his residence, that he is a citizen of the United...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Absentee Registration Laws in 12 Additional States Compiled | 10/13/1928 | See Source »

Those men who have secured absentee voting ballots may bring them to the Union and swear to them before a Notary Public who will be supplied by the Democratic organization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROOSEVELT SPEAKS TO HARVARD MEN AT UNION LUNCHEON | 10/11/1928 | See Source »

...were king-ah love, if I were king-What tributary nations would I bring To stoop before your sceptre and to swear Allegiance to your lips and eyes and hair, Beneath your feet what treasures I would fling-The stars should be your pearls upon a string, The world a ruby for your finger ring And you should have the sun and moon to wear If I were king...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Many a Mugful | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

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