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Word: yea (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such is vision. And from this tale the discerning,--yea, he who runs,--may perhaps read why a little, old New England college, named Harvard, became, under this man's guidance, one of the universities of the world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESIDENT-EMERITUS ELIOT TO CELEBRATE 88TH BIRTHDAY TODAY | 3/20/1922 | See Source »

...Batando and Aquinca hold each other in mutual contempt, there are those that cry aloud: "Let us not have this spirit of hostility--are we not brethren one to another? Let Aquinca open his heart to Batando and Batando to Aquinca and there will be an end of littleness; yea, such a joyous exchange of fellowship there will be that we will return to the state of our ancestors, when differences between one man and another were unknown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 1/18/1922 | See Source »

...Yea, swell. Party every night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TABLE-TALK | 1/4/1922 | See Source »

...Lampy . . . hereby issues a sincere desire that all may have a merry Christmas, yea, including Deans, creditors and CRIMSON editors." Lampoon editorial, December...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MERRY CHRISTMAS | 12/22/1921 | See Source »

...goes throughout the game; the announcer calling out gains and the dummy football registering corresponding losses; Messrs. A. T. Blevitch and L. H. Yank being wanted on the telephone in the middle of forward passes; the noisy person in the back of the room yelling "Yea" on the slightest provocation and being hushed up at each outbreak; and every one wondering what the quarterback meant by calling for the plays he did. Somebody always wants to lead a cheer and somebody always wants to discourage it, with the result that there is a cheer. Late arrivals come in, radiating cold...

Author: By Robert Benchley and President OF Lampoon, S | Title: OF ALL THINGS | 11/19/1921 | See Source »

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