Word: recollect
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...course, that figure of 250,000 has to be examined before its import can be told. In the first place, it was one of those not-too-reliable sheriff's estimates. ("Well, Sheriff, how many people do you think we've got here?" "Wall, I don't rightly recollect ever seeing so many before, but it must be at least 50,000.") In the press bus during the motorcade's progress, Boston newsmen made guesses ranging from 100,000 to 200,000, but the final figure, arrived at by two police officials, was 250,000. "The important thing is that...
...Summer School has had a history like Topsy. It was "nevah borned, it jest grewed." No one truly knows the birth date, no early records exist, and even the memory of first director failed in trying to recollect the first few summers of class instruction...