Word: tis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tis true that he did not win the event. 'Tis likewise true that he did not come anywhere near winning it. Nevertheless, he put up a remarkably fine game...
...House the final minutes wore away without controversy. A few minutes before the closing hour, seven p. m., the clock was stopped and the members gathered together and sang Merrilly We Roll Along, The Old Oaken Bucket, Sweet Adeline, My Country 'Tis of Thee. Speaker Gillett announced that the session was at an end, and wished the members "pleasant vacation." "And reelection!" shouted the members as the gavel fell...
...wealth of color and gorgeous effects, the "Passing Show of 1923" Monday night at the Shubert made a successful entrance among Boston's theatrical entertainments. And this in spite a tuneless score, a glaring lack of "feminine pulchritude", and a few heavy, mediocre scenes. The producer and cast, 'tis true, had a pretty flimsy foundation to build upon. Much of the humour was stale and slapstick, and in not a few cases meager ideas succeeded only through the brilliance in their execution. Yet at other times this was all forgotten in the splendor of some tableau or the diversion...
After a special prayer, The Battle Hymn of the Republic was sung for probably the first time within those ancient walls, followed by God Save the King and My Country 'Tis of Thee...
...system such as this many students would fail, but, to alter the quotation a little: "Tis better to have worked, and failed, Than never to have worked at all." And those successful would be worthy to a degree even greater than some others who have been personally conducted through the modern "savage wood" of learning...