Word: yanks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago Tribune headlined Sir William's appointment: MIDWAY SIGNS LIMEY PROF TO DOPE YANK TALK...
...Chicago Tribune thus headlined Sir William's appointment: MIDWAY SIGNS LIMEY PROF. TO DOPE YANK TALK *As an instance of British borrowins;, Mencken cites the fact that "the London Daily Express has lifted the whole vocabulary of the American newsweekly, TIME, and adopted even its eccentric syntax...
...conqueror, Menelik spent his youth as the captive of his father's enemies. Not until he was 45 was he able to wangle the title of Negus Negasti for himself. By thoroughly defeating the Italians at Aduwa, soon afterward, he made the title mean something. He proceeded to yank together a true empire by a series of bloody conquests, notably against his father's Gallas, was extremely conciliatory to Britain, died in 1913, leaving a treasure of 10,000,000 gold Italian lire and his succession to be settled by a new series of civil wars...
...years. Yet Earth could not be more than two or three times that old, because otherwise all the radium would have decayed to lead. Thus the time at which Earth and the other planets were thrown off the sun, probably by the gravitational yank of a passing star, is commonly estimated at 2,000,000,000 years ago. Much of this time was spent cooling, shrinking, solidifying: more than half of it passed before evidence of the first microscopic life was left in the rocks. Five hundred million years ago sponges, jellyfish and worms appeared; fishes 400,000,000 years...
...Yank to another Yank, permit me to assure you that I'm holding my temper with both hands so as to be able to address you an informative and courteous letter, apropos your reported "honors" for that Sweinic--, Herr Dekter Ernst Hanfstangl, and so writing you wholly upon the assumption that you and your confreres simply don't yet know, inst what sort of a proper Hanfstaengl...