Word: wouldn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vote against Representative Celler (if I can) I would became one. He is such a smart Alec! Wasn't it he who didn't hesitate to refer to the Prince of Wales as "chasing but not chaste" ? What a cowardly attack on a man who couldn't (or wouldn't) defend himself...
...formulate a definite outline for spring practice. The purpose of spring practice. The purpose of spring practice is twofold. In the first place it gives us a chance to try out new formations and new ideas, and secondly we have an opportunity to look over new material which we wouldn't have in the fall. At present I don't know scarcely any of you, but I hope to know every man here before the spring season is over...
...worship. They demand protection against people who have no regard for decency or the laws of God or man. . . . And as to the Rotary clubs and the Kiwanis and Lions and Elks that you say are against this bill?well, I've spoken before all of 'em and I wouldn't consider their opinion on a matter of morals. ... Go from the pineries of Michigan to the cedar keys of Florida and from rocky Maine to San Francisco, and you'll find that wherever the Sabbath is loosest and freest the prisons are fullest. I know...
...Briton or American, should have a proper respect for exactness and a feeling for the nicely chosen word. Mr. Taylor's criticism, however, is petty haggling to no discernible purpose. TIME'S writers, he says, would get the blue envelope from the average American newspaper editor. Just wouldn't they though! That's one of the reasons TIME is so readable...
...Wouldn't you think he'd have guessed, after I'd been out of Ivory for three days?" asked Sally, smiling. "Besides, four cakes of Ivory over here cost nearly as much as a string of pearls, and we've just got to economize...