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Word: acted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...would know English would do well to put themselves, as it were, by proxy, in the same favorable surroundings; let alone the mastery of technique - that can be gained from a study of such masters of style as the author of "Gringoire" (Booth, by the way, used to act a version of this play) - or of Bossuet - or of one of the writers not included in the readings Aside from this advantage there is the profit and the pleasure which new aspects bring to those who but rarely deign to look at the world through eyes other than their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: French Readings. | 3/1/1887 | See Source »

...told them: "No flags, boys, if you please." The boys consented. One of the freshmen then obtained employment as a supe from Lizzie Evans company, which to-night played "Sea Sands." He had the flag of Sheff. '89 concealed about his person. Just toward the middle of the first act a boat crossed the stage as a part of the play. Two persons are in this boat, and when it came in full view of the audience, there was the obnoxious flag mounted in the stern of the boat. Then pandemonium broke loose with a vengeance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 2/24/1887 | See Source »

Great Jove! And can these things be? The yard a lake of raging water, whose billows roll over the unprotected sidewalks, and never a glimmer of light at night to act as light-house on the vasty deep! This particular editor of the CRIMSON fell in three feet of water, and wandered off the main channel of the sidewalk into deeper gulfs twice last evening in voyaging from Holworthy to Weld. There was water everywhere, and nothing to guide him in it. The president is away, we know, but we must appeal to the pity and humanity of the residuary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/19/1887 | See Source »

...subject. This question has been under consideration for some time by those who have the base-ball interests of the college most at heart. After mature deliberation they have decided that it would be better to form this association, and it only remains for the college to act upon this decision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/16/1887 | See Source »

Resolved, That the Lowell Club desire to express their sincere thanks to the Harvard Club for this polite and gentlemanly act, and assure them that it is fully appreciated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Twenty Years of Harvard Base-Ball. | 2/16/1887 | See Source »

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