Word: thank
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moved to write a letter to a man unlettered in the law. In closing this letter, which was made public last week, Judge Taft said, "You could do no more important work for the body social and politic than this. As one in the community I write to thank...
...toll was $1.75," said the stranger, laying the exact change on the counter. "Thank you," he added courteously and departed...
...published a tabulation of conversations recorded in 30 U. S. and Canadian kindergartens over a month's time. "I" was the word used most frequently, averaging 1,044 times; "the" was second, 616 times; "teacher" came eighth; "what," 13th; "mother," 24th; "father," 80th ("papa" appeared entirely obsolete). "Please" and "thank you" were almost unknown. City children knew fighting words and slang. The size of an average kindergartner vocabulary was not made public after this laborious study...
...When I was in Washington the last time, I called on the President; and I thought I ought to thank him, not only for his interest in the cathedral, but for his repeatedly expressed attitude on the subject of religion. And as I thanked this quiet, reserved man, his upper lip trembled, and he said: 'Mr. White, no nation has ever been able to endure, no nation will be able to endure, without religion...
...Wynkoop, U. S. business man, later declared: "Thank God we got away alive. . . . The only mercy shown was to foreigners. ... I doubt if anybody will ever know the number of dead and wounded. . . . The bandits had with them an expert engineer, who ran the train to Yurecuare. . . . There they wrecked the station, looted the town, burned and wrecked every coach on the train, and heartlessly stood by while wounded passengers in the third-class carriages were actually cremated alive...