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Word: absurdly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...probably the result of having to read the college papers once in two weeks, - "collegiate journalism" has improved a great deal in the last two or three years. A few papers are silly, a good many are heavy, pretentious, or stupid, but there are only one or two left absurd enough to find subjects for laughter in, and the advancing march of common-sense will soon leave these behind. However, it is only about twice a year that one meets with anything in a college paper that would be thought worth reading if it appeared in an outside journal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCHANGES. | 4/23/1880 | See Source »

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