Word: wasn
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Guess Gilligan wasn't at the RPI game...
Then some other people spitefully said that she wasn't the first lady in the land after all; that there was a lady in Florida who should have the precedence in going out to dinner...
...Yale men. She had inquired if he knew a certain Mr. T., of Harvard, whom she had recently met. He replied: "Oh, yes, I know him - a tall, sandy fellow in the law school." "No," she replied, to the jubilant amusement of the Yalensains, "he was tall, but he wasn't sandy; he was a Harvard man." - Yale Record...
...They had not been there long. however, when a party of sophomores arrived on investigation bent. These new comers declined to trust to rumor. As custodians of the sacred fence, they had to preserve their holy trust, and until authentic tidings of victory came the freshmen must go. It wasn't a question of law, it was a question of fact - and half the freshmen were 150 miles away. And so the others sadly climbed down from the rails just about the time a telegram came telling how the Harvard men had beaten the visitors out of their boots. There...
...recent lecture in the Law School the instructor remarked, "Now, Mr. H., we will consider the question you asked the other day." "I wasn't present the other day, sir," replied...