Word: tis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crummy-looking clowns still provoke mirth. Massimilliano Truzzi still juggles flaming torches; the Wallendas ride a bicycle tandem on the high wire; the Flying Concellos do their breathless, double-and-triple-somersault flying leaps; the lions & tigers look simultaneously ferocious and bored; the trained seals render My Country, 'Tis of Thee; and the band still blares & blares, making all its half-hundred numbers sound exactly like the one by Stravinsky...
Just for a minute, Vag doubted; then he curled his lip and smiled scornfully at Inchball. ""Tis truth, with deference to the college," he quoted, "newspapers are the fount of knowledge. America can't win. America can't survive, without free and adequate reporting. The Crimson will appear tomorrow morning, and the next and the next and the next. We cannot guarantee to print notices received after 7 o'clock. Honeychile--let us join the others at the flowing bowl...
...figures released last Friday on the Freshman winter sports activities show that swimming is still leading in popularity and has, in fact, increased tis fall total of 249 to 262. Squash, which is only a winter sport, is in second place with 149 players, probably having absorbed a large number of the 177 yardlings who played tennis in the fall...
Murrow grew 20 Ib. leaner before the last Dornier droned home from the great raids on London. His offices were hit twice. He broadcast in a studio littered with sleeping people on mattresses ("Tis new experience," he cabled, "although probably not so new people sleeping by loudspeakers...
...Tis the final conflict; let each stand in his place...