Word: answering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...think (if I asked) she would answer...
...imagination.] There are other tables containing heroine's names, with appropriate rhymes; the list might be indefinitely extended: Mary, airy, fairy; Laura, saw her, adore her: Lucy, truce he, boozy; and so on, ad infinitum. It will also be noticed that one set of rhymes will frequently answer for several heroines; for instance, Dora, Cora, Flora, Leonora, and others. In addition to these tables, long lists of adjectives are furnished, - usually of a dyspeptic, graveyard-like sort, such as despairful, deathly, chillying, somber-seeming, and the like...
BOTANY RECITATION. KIND-HEARTED INSTRUCTOR (who has asked Mr. Phlunk all the simple questions he could without getting an answer, and who does n't want to dead him utterly). "Ah - it is - monocot - I don't know...
...Spectator comments on the fact that at Cornell money-prizes are given in the athletic contests. Do the Cornell men expect to be admitted as amateurs at other sports after this? The Era answers that it's none of Columbia's business, and anyhow Cornell never had a postgraduate on her crew, - another delightfully conclusive answer. It may be interesting to some to see what the prizes are worth at Cornell. In the 100-yards dash the prize is $1; 220-yards, $2 ("reduction on taking a quantity"); 1/4 mile and 1/2 mile, $3; 100-yards run (backwards) which...
...about to attempt some suitable answer when a professor who had for some time with difficulty restrained himself, rushed forward and threw his arms about me. When his emotion permitted him to speak, he ejaculated, "O my son! My life's work has been and is to prove that the Choctaws are the living representatives of the lost digamma. And now I have a fellow-worker, a co-operator, a ???." At this point his emotion again mastered him, and another speaker demanded my attention. And this is what he said: "In the name of the Faculty of Ha-v-erfo...