Word: ve
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...going to say and say it. The same advice applies to speech-making as to letter writing when one is told to let one's correspondent wish there were more. It might be well to bear in mind Bulwer's advice about calling, "Leave as soon as you've made a good impression...
History begins whenever there is a record that tends to explain man in the relations I've indicated. An Indian spear head may be a record if used to explain man's social relations. Prehistoric is generally understood to refer to something before written record, but according to my definition it would refer to a time before any record...
...story. Is it not as well to avoid an absolute imitation of a conversation even when one is reporting it? Do such expressions as "and I-well, I rather liked her-you needn't smile, I didn't care much about her" or "and dignified!-by George ! I've never seen anything like it" help the flow of the narrative any ? This is merely a suggestion, not an implication that the use of the expressions in this story is a serious injury...