Word: shouldn
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...costs $150 per year to belong to the Harvard Co-operative Society. The organization has been in existence five years, has a store of its own, and last year did a business amounting to $37,000. Why shouldn't we have one?- Princetonian. No wonder that out siders have distorted ideas of Harvard extravagance...
...Hurries out on the recover. Shouldn't hunch up his shoulders, especially his right. Goes back too far and settles badly. Fails to keep a good grip...
Professor in German-"Mr. W., how would you decline gutes, alter, rather Wein?" Mr. W.-"I shouldn't decline it." [Orient...
Teacher: "Why, how stupid you are, to be sure! Can't multiply 88 by 24. I'll wager that Charles can do it in less than no time." Pupil: "I shouldn't be surprised. They say that fools multiply very rapidly now-a-days." [University Press...
...which opens as follows: "Three men are playing poker, jack-pots, and, in a jack-pot, A is dealing; B and C both pass; A then picks up his hand and opens the pot; B passes, and says 'I stay in;' A picks up cards to deal." etc. We shouldn't think enough readers of a sporting paper understood Greek to make the printing of such problems an object; but the journal may have a large circulation among college students. - [Norristown Herald...