Word: yes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world. His courage was that of the American jaguar and of the dauntless globe-circling conquistadors. For integrity he was another Gibraltar, for vision a sun-regarding eagle, for aspiration a Napoleon, a Caesar. . . . Generous, high-minded, inflexible of will and purpose. . . . The century's, yes, all the centuries' hero...
...little by little, from definition to definition, sifting each case down to a little question of legal right and answering "yes" or "no," the Court goes on season by season developing the social institutions of the country...
...warm scent of orange blossoms, tiny balls spinning in a great casino, the great Caruso who was her Rodolfo, Tosti making great goggle eyes from the front row. It, too, had been the first Covent Garden performance after the War, when a shabby tweed audience replaced the pompous black. Yes, La Bohème was good. But so was Romeo et Juliette, which she had studied with Gounod himself-Gounod with his velvet skullcap and his velvet smoking jacket-Romeo et Juliette in which she had made her first successful London appearance with Jean de Reszke her Romeo, his brother...
Undergraduate Power. Yes, as President Emeritus Charles F. Thwing of Western Reserve University had written in the New York Times, an outstanding phenomenon everywhere during 1925-26 was the increasing power?or at least, increased self-assertiveness? of the undergraduates. (Dr. Thwing had compared this phenomenon to the "student universities" of the Middle Ages, when a professor had to ask his pupils for permission to take a week-end off. Ah, there was thirst for knowledge in those days...
...please don't set the piano on fire!"* has entered Spanish with a colloquial meaning-unlike such pure vapidities as, "Yes, we have no bananas...