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Word: wend (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Incidentally, the self-appointed critics are now free to wend their way out of the Augean stables. Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth and Radcliffe are cleansed from any taint of originality. There is no retort--except, possibly, the rather ineffectual expedient of mentioning the Eleventh Commandment, whose essence is concerned mostly with minding one's business...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ONE AND THE MANY | 12/5/1930 | See Source »

...love and debts and jangled through a jumble of life in doubts afterworse, wetting with the bim-blebeaks, drikking with nautonects, bilking with durrydunglecks and horing after ladybirdies (ichnehmon diagelegenaitoikon) he fell joust as sieck as a sexton and tantoo pooveroo quant a churchprince, and wheer the midges to wend hemsylph or vosch to sirch for grub for his corapusse or to find a hospes. alick, he wist gnit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kaleidoscopic Recamera | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

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