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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is a saying that a new word added to one's vocabulary is worth $10, so I avidly reached for my Webster's Twentieth Century Unabridged when my eyes lit upon "logorrheic'' on p. 8 of your Nov. 2 issue. I felt cheated when I found nothing between logometric and Logos. Rather than lose $10 worth of culture I am risking 3? to ask you to elucidate...
...apparent Cantabridgian sympathies, her eye was not on the game, as she looked curiously from side to side. Her attention was not brought back to the field until a Harvard pass was intercepted, when groans of tortured souls rose all around her. Looking back at the game her face lit up with momentary pleasure as she squealed, "Oh goody it's Yale's Ball...
...Presumably that's another detail for attention,' I remarked as I lit my pipe...
...bleakly. Jim Bridges got out of his chair, lit the oil lamp and sat down again. At 6:30 Pearl Bridges gave birth to a boy, at 6:32 to a girl, at 6:34 to a girl, at 6:36 to a girl. Jim Bridges fainted...
Colonial mothers who were blessed with daughters seemed to have the boy question firmly under control. Historians tell us that at the beginning of a call a so-called "sparking lamp" was lit. One of these is on exhibition and contained enough oil to burn for fifteen minutes. Historians have somehow neglected to say what happened when the light went...