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Word: thes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brightest of thes estars is rangy, six foot three inch Tom Woods who, Brooks believes, will develop into an exceptional backstroker. Woods, who was not a great start at Exeter last year, seems to have come into his own this fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Swimmers Face M.I.T. Saturday In Opener of Season | 12/5/1946 | See Source »

...with you, or we will bring you home. go on, now; and don't get us into trouble!" No Timesman's dispatch is cut except for space reasons, ever materially changed except for the necessary addition, by the paper's twelve cable copyreaders, of "ands" and "thes" (left out of cables to save tolls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Jimmy James's Boys | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

...faults are obvious. ... I suffer from cacoëthes loquendi, a mania or itch for talking. . . . But there never has been superadded to these vices of mine the withering, embalming vice of consistency. . . . Let me quote Emerson: 'A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Ashurst Out | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

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