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Word: vag (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yellow flame of the match penetrated the whiteness of the fluorescent light and it was a strange color and then it was all covered with blue smoke from the cigarette. This was Vag's fourth cigarette, but he was still on page 296. He looked at the book again and whispered the printed words. The Naval Officers marched past outside his window, and he stopped and listened for a moment. Then he looked at the book again. Everything around him was moving. The electric clock hummed merrily in its dark corner. The cigarette burned smaller. The marching died away...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 3/31/1943 | See Source »

...What the hell!" Vag said aloud, getting up from his desk. Then everything was quiet again, and he seemed to hear the hum of the clock repeating "What the hell!" over and over again. His eyes passed over the open book and onto a little yellow card beside it. He sat down again and picked up the card. Its bright color interested his eyes more than the dull white pages of the book. Its bold black letters meant more to him than all the print of the wordy volume that lay before him. "Notice of Classification" it said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 3/31/1943 | See Source »

...Vag thought of the warnings his dean had given him. "Remember now, don't throw up everything just because you'll have to go into the army eventually. Do your work until the very end." And the other routine from his parents. "Forget about the army right now. When they want you they'll call you. Right now you're in school. Make the best of it." It was the same old story. Isolate yourself and do well before you go into the army...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 3/31/1943 | See Source »

...Vagabond, you can't," an inward voice answered in a serious tone. "Dean Hanford . . . you remember. Probation, Vagabond. Dean Hanford. Probation. President Conant wouldn't like it, Vag. And then there's probation . . . Dean Hanford. Probation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 2/17/1943 | See Source »

...Vag walked unsteadily to the window. Raising it a bit, he sniffed the moist, cold air outside. Coughing violently, he slammed it shut and wound his weary way back to bed, being careful not to catch his white woolen bedsocks on the steel bedspring as he buried himself again under the warm covers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 2/17/1943 | See Source »

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