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The West Point Scrap Book choose

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[US] O.E. Wood West Point Scrap-Book 339: To make a cold max — To make a perfect recitation.
at cold, adj.
[US] O.E. Wood West Point Scrap-Book 234: There is ‘dead-loads’ of smoking tobacco.
at dead loads (n.) under dead, adv.
[US] O.E. Wood West Point Scrap-Book 337: Fem. –A woman–girl–young lady.
at femme, n.
[US] O.E. Wood West Point Scrap-Book 64: When you and I and Benny, and all the others too, / Are called before the ‘final board’ our course of life to view, / May we never ‘fess’ on any point, but straight be told to go, / And join the army of the blest at Benny Havens’, oh!
at fess, v.
[US] O.E. Wood West Point Scrap-Book 255: My ‘goose-tracks’ did the cadets grieve, I’m Chaplain in the Army [HDAS].
at goose tracks (n.) under goose, n.4
[US] O.E. Wood West Point Scrap-Book 339: To max it. — To make a perfect recitation .
at max, v.
[US] O.E. Wood West Point Scrap-Book 227: But we must sit still, and be patiently stewed / Like a pot-full of ‘Mess-hall slumgudgeon’.
at slumgullion, n.
[US] O.E. Wood West Point Scrap-Book 229: My ancient joy of ‘spoonying,’ / Is all knocked into smash.
at smash, n.1
[US] O.E. Wood West Point Scrap-Book 338: Spooney Man. – A ladies’ man. Spooney Letter. – A love-letter.
at spoony, adj.
[US] O.E. Wood West Point Scrap-Book 229: They put me through a course of sprouts.
at sprout, n.2
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