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Former Nixon Aide William Safire, in a New York Times column appropriately titled "Pollyanna Lives," wrote last week that the average family's real income�earnings ad justed for price boosts�has more than doubled since 1950.
From Time Magazine Archive
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That day was high festival in Athens, and all Monday they justed and feasted, but went betimes to rest that they might rise early to see the great fight.
From The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' by Sidgwick, Compiled by Frank
There justed divers young knights of the king's court: and the justing was more asperer of those young knights than ever they had seen any in that country.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall