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Word: wager (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...school on this globe) the eyelash curler rules and we, all go around fluttering flirtatious furbelows at susceptible Profs. I hear you men all have jaw-breaking vocabularies. Well, we can polish the old apple to perfection--so maybe that makes us even. On the whole, I'll wager Harvard brushes its teeth just about as TSCW does...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 2/10/1940 | See Source »

Perhaps to keep up with TIME I should have written: Sirs: I'll wager TIME's phalanstery does not embrace TIME's conatus at the laconical when it used "obsquatulate" where "beat" would not only have sufficed but improved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 15, 1940 | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

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