Word: adopts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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London swells, it is said, are wearing suits, made by Poole, of bright silk plaid, the colors resembling a Roman scarf. It remains to be seen whether America will adopt this latest freak of British barbarism...
...proposed at Yale to adopt the Harvard custom and establish for each graduating class a permanent class fund...
...most flagrant intemperance, appears in a late number of the National Temperance Advocate, a story which it would be superfluous to deny. There may be a kind of temperance which the journal we have quoted does not profess to advocate but which motives of consistency might move it to adopt. Temperance of speech is not the least of the virtues...
Yours truly,WALTER C. BAYLIES,Secretary H. U. B. C.A meeting of the Yale Boat Club, to adopt a reply to the above, will be held the latter part of this week...
...Charles-River Railroad have adopted an excellent way of designating the horse-ears on the different routes. On the top of the cars in front are placed large wooden balls, and the colors of these balls show the route of the cars. The Union Railway should adopt some similar method...