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Word: trepid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1944-1944
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Died. John Archer Gee, 50, vast and vigorous Yale professor of English com position; after long illness; in New Haven. A masterful lecturer on the comma (or any other article of punctuation), an in trepid Maine Coast power boatman, he was perhaps the greatest tennis player of his weight (well beyond 200 lbs.) in the U.S. He observed: "I have to hit them hard. If they come back, I can't get to them." His advice to the young: "Not many of us can be Davy Crocketts, but some, perchance, may hope to fill the niche of Millard Fillmore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 14, 1944 | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

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