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Word: quoth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Well it can't be the CRIMSON's delivery boy," quoth her bedmate. "There isn't any Crime today, it's Armistice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peace! | 11/10/1949 | See Source »

...carp not, quoth the wise man; let not petty faction and bickering mar the happiness of this occasion; but rather gather to the radio and the television set, and witness in peace and harmony this meeting of the two great champions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Everybody Up | 10/5/1949 | See Source »

Wall Street Economist Nicholas Molodovsky of White, Weld & Co. finally took the bull by the horns. Quoth he: "Stock prices are still engaged in a long-term basic cyclical decline. Yet I also believe that, within a shorter segment of time, we are now at the inception of a significant intermediate rise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Tell Me, Little Gypsy | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...basement of the Park Street Church in 1812, is the windiest spot in the City. It seems one day the Devil and the Wind were making merry on Tremont Street, blowing dresses and parasols, when suddenly the Devil saw the open church door. "They need me in there," quoth he; "wait here." So the Devil went inside the church and never came out again. And that is why to this day the Wind, faithful to its evil friend, still blusters around Brimstone Corner and Old Granary...

Author: By E. PARKER Haydon jr., | Title: Circling the Square | 12/1/1948 | See Source »

...Well, I'm not throwing the Bullock you. Harvard has many an Ableman" quoth the wizened philosopher, taking a hitch in his Rawers. "We'll throw McDaniel into the Irosu...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey occ, | Title: Oriental Sees Blaik Turning Crimson in Tilt's Aftermath | 10/16/1948 | See Source »

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