A History of Short Words

From the New York Times Crossword Puzzle

ONCE

Fri, 1 Mar '24
Never again
Tue, 27 Feb '24
A single time
Sun, 25 Feb '24
Eleven, in El Salvador
Sun, 11 Feb '24
Back in the day
Mon, 22 Jan '24
A single time
Wed, 6 Dec '23
Historically
Sun, 12 Nov '23
"Back in the good old days …"
Fri, 13 Oct '23
Way back when
Thu, 10 Aug '23
Back then
Thu, 13 Jul '23
"Back in my day …"
Thu, 15 Jun '23
Years ago
Sun, 19 Mar '23
At some point
Wed, 15 Mar '23
Start of a fairy tale
Sat, 7 Jan '23
At some previous point
Mon, 26 Dec '22
"___ upon a time …"
Sun, 4 Dec '22
In times past
Sat, 26 Nov '22
Formerly
Thu, 17 Nov '22
Years ago
Thu, 3 Nov '22
Some time ago
Thu, 27 Oct '22
Start of a reminiscence
Sun, 23 Oct '22
Last "O" in YOLO
Fri, 19 Aug '22
Part of YOLO
Thu, 21 Jul '22
Start of a reminiscence
Wed, 15 Jun '22
Back in the day
Sun, 22 May '22
Never again
Thu, 5 May '22
First word of Poe's "The Raven"
Thu, 23 Dec '21
"Kiss her ___ for me" ("A Holly Jolly Christmas" lyric)
Fri, 1 Oct '21
Years back
Fri, 24 Sep '21
___-over
Sun, 15 Aug '21
In the past
Thu, 24 Jun '21
Historically
Tue, 1 Jun '21
Second word in many limericks
Mon, 31 May '21
How many times the Washington Nationals have won the World Series
Thu, 1 Apr '21
How many times TV's Perry Mason lost a case
Tue, 9 Mar '21
___ and for all
Tue, 29 Dec '20
In years past