Word: vis
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...groups of serious-minded students gathered in the music room after dinner for a little Bach or Beethoven, or discussing the problems of vis major and concepts of momentum and potential energy with the head tutor over the teacups exist, happily or otherwise, only in the imaginings of the more lyrically inclined correspondents. Nor were the student apartments visited by the investigator inhabited solely by bespectacled fellows deeply immersed in theses on the newly evolved science of bio-psychology or the declension of the Coptic verbs. He was, in point of actual fact, treated to some of the most adroitly...
...name that looks hard but is actually easy to pronounce. The trick is to take one's time and roll it out slowly, Russian fashion, at full, length: "Josef Vis-sur-ee-ú-nun-vich Zoogoash...