Word: yes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yes," put in Mrs. Coolidge with a smile, "we get a great deal of mail?even books and magazines if we write for them...
Observers at Cherbourg last week watched the faces of French dock-hands, porters, innkeepers, thronging citizens. Yes, as the singing, shouting legionaries landed, with their tin hats now replaced by straws, their packs by suitcases, their guns by canes, cigars, toy horns, the faces of Cherbourg smiled genuinely, the faces of Cherbourg grinned, laughed aloud, yelled a welcome...
...vault, then crashed shut. Feeling his way through Stygian passages for perhaps half a mile, he reached (he said) a large, lighted chamber whence six other tunnels burrowed further into the mountain. Commanding the chamber was a monster urn up which the curious Bedouin clambered to peer in. Within?yes, the veritable heaps of gems and gold of Ali Baba's "Open, Sesame" story. Knotting a clutch of treasure in his burnoose, he next chipped a crack in his prison's rose-red sandstone wall, widening it to a passage which brought him out high on the slope above...
...wide spread influence of TIME among cultured people. I have attempted no less than three different times, in three separate classes, to arouse respect for my wide knowledge of current events by plagiarizing incidents re lated in TIME, and each time the professor has smilingly and somewhat devastatingly retorted, "Yes, I read about that in TIME." So you see the plight a poor collegian is in when he tries to put your magazine to such practical uses...
...pictures revealed a radiator on the general style of the Lincoln; a spring-suspension giving a lower front effect; a hood larger and more streamlined to the body than ever before on a stock Ford. Evidently, too, all four of the wire wheels were braked. But from the rear-yes? no? . . . No, there was no visible difference; a new Ford would be scarcely distinguishable from an old until you passed it. The highway had had its face lifted but would do its back hair as always. Acts. That motorists may be obliged to tread their accelerators stoutly to have...