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Word: backed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...understand, then," said I, "that anything, from Rabelais to Scarron, may be read and conned eight hours of the day, within these walls, by any lad of fifteen, and yet not read, outside, by any man under eighty. Here are your books; take them back to their alcoves to be purified by the dust of ages and dog-eared by interested youth. Well, can you give me Praed's poems...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BALZAC OR THE BIBLE? | 4/1/1879 | See Source »

...S.FIVE men of the old crew will row this year, as Mr. Stow has decided to come back to the crew, and is now in training. Five men from the old crew is an unexpected pleasure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 3/21/1879 | See Source »

...entries for the contests of the H. A. A. are now made in sealed envelopes, so there is no longer any reason why men should hold back to see who else enters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 3/7/1879 | See Source »

...line after the example of the Era and Review, and are having "a real old-time Greco-Roman with crossed quills." The Courant has in its last issue a pretty severe "rough" on one of the Record editors, and we are waiting with anxiety to see the Record pay back the compliment with interest. Thank Heaven that the Advocate and Crimson can nearly always confine their remarks about each other to their brevity columns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 3/7/1879 | See Source »

Then followed a curious rumbling from a set of pipes at the back of the mosque, and this grieved all the youths still more, while some, who sat by the pipes, opened their mouths in agony, but made no sound, respecting, doubtless, the sacredness of the place. This exercise, which seems to have no object, they call in their language Pehn, which means distress or tribulation. As this ceased the young men dashed out, some clearing me at a bound...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNE LETTRE PERSANE. | 2/21/1879 | See Source »

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