Word: whey
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that hour. In fact I have heard a great many of them grumble at being obliged to leave so early, and I believe they are practically unanimous in desiring that the room should be kept open until 10 o'clock at least. And there seems to be no reason whey their wishes should not be gratified. The laying of gas pipes or electric wires, etc., is not involved, as in the case of the college library. The lights are already there, and the only expense would be the trifling cost of the additional gas that would be burned...
...votes cast both by Harvard students and by the reading public reached by a New York literary weekly, was so small makes any choice of names liable to the suspicion of local preferences. If is but natural that men who are about to select a list of names which whey consider of most worth, should be more or less influenced by personal preferences. The only offset to this tendency is, that as the prejudices of the reading public of New York are apt to differ from those of the reading public of Boston, the errors made by a New Yorker...
...whey-faced bookworms meekly said...
...Sing whey! Memorial milk...