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Word: click (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...more difficult feat. His "Nigger of No Account" is well no the way which leads to literature, because the author has sympathized with his hero. I am arraid that in the craze for technique the necessity of sympathetic understanding is too often forgotten; the story goes with a click, like a child's toy, but soon wears out and is throw away...

Author: By R. K. Hack., | Title: CURRENT ISSUE OF HARVARD MAGAZINE BRIEFLY REVIEWED | 5/27/1919 | See Source »

...last evening, in the New Lecture Hall. "The trouble with your organization is that your officers and non-commissioned officers do not insist on the small details and will not be able, later on, to insist on the large ones. You must make your men obey instantly, like the 'click...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COL. APPLIN CENSURED DISCIPLINE OF CORPS | 5/14/1918 | See Source »

...captains told their companies that they did not do well and then, the unpleasant scene being ended, ready for a leisurely hour, we drrifted into the New Lecture Hall. That hour revived our morale, we needed a tonic, and we have got it. The word "click" has come into our vocabularies to stay,--discipline means something real and fundamental...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "I WAS NOT IMPRESSED" | 5/14/1918 | See Source »

When I first came to Harvard it was possible for a lady to appear in the gallery at Memorial Hall without attracting more than polite notice. To click on a plate was to stamp one's self a Freshman, and quickly to be hissed down. Even football demonstrations were limited to cheering...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Childishness at Memorial | 10/8/1913 | See Source »

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