Word: vot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once at a meeting, a number of faculty members charged the University with not giving certain of its teachers secure tenure of their jobs. President Hutchins claimed that this practice kept them on their toes. "Vot you mean." Ajax burst out, "is dot it keeps dem on deir knees...
...plays a most unscientific game, but usually has plenty to say to his partner after a losing hand. Often his colleagues could cheerfully strangle him, for he stifles all bridge table chat. If someone drops an irrelevant remark, he raises his head and barks an equivalent of his famous: "Vot iss de effidence...