Word: unalakleet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small donors, he commends the utility of the Unalakleet Eskimo language, in which the one word oo-too-koo means "small and I wish it were bigger." One Harvardman wrote during the Depression to explain in a flurry of metallic puns his inability to donate: "I am an aluminum of two colleges besides Harvard, and can not pay antimony to all three." McCord's answer was a simple "Iron stand you." To the 35% of Harvard alumni who had never heeded his call, McCord one year hopefully anticipated the day when he could write to them a couplet...
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