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Word: wavers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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They have studied the I.D.R. until they know the school of the regiment backwards, they can mount and relieve the guard, and single-handed, can pursue the husky Hun back to the gates of Berlin--on paper; all this without a waver or differing in one detail from established precedent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOLD BUTTONS | 6/1/1918 | See Source »

...Bacon, who contributes two sketches, is lively, direct, at times imaginative, but he has not yet developed a sense of form, and he seems to waver between realism and "reelism," unable to decide whether to take himself seriously or to parody his own style...

Author: By F. SCHENCK ., | Title: Editorials of Current Advocate Timely, Sane, and Well Expressed | 2/25/1918 | See Source »

...last Saturday afternoon at Longwood, R. N. Williams, 2d, '16 defeated I. C. Wright. This means that Williams will retain the trophy which he won last year. Every see was hard fought and full of sensational playing. Williams' service was at all times terrific and the interest did not waver for a moment, since the playing was excellent on both sides. The games were scored...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Williams Won Longwood Trophy | 3/27/1916 | See Source »

...discussions; but pays his respects in particular to the annoying habit of filling in these gaps "with a meaningless 'uh'." The complainant is doubtless right to a great degree. There are always some men whose busy minds team with so many ideas at once, that expression must halt and waver while the thoughts struggling for expression fight it out among themselves. The "meaningless 'uh'" is of course merely the far-off echo of that wordless mental battle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS ROOM VOCALIZATION. | 2/26/1913 | See Source »

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