Word: big
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Notwithstanding the pressure of examination time, the opening night of the big minstrel show in the Boston Theatre Monday evening proved a sufficient counter-attraction to draw a fair sized delegation of college men from the pressing attractions of Cambridge at present...
...high jumpers at the gymnasium are making big records in practice trials this winter...
...Leipsig) English does to Macaulay. Meeting an American friend, in reply to an inquiry as to his health, Prof, Hubner, anxious to air his familiarity with English, upon his knowledge and mastery of which he prided himself not a little, exclaimed, 'I am much in misery-I have a big pain in my trunk.' He meant to say, 'I am quite sick, having a severe pain in my chest.' Probably the modern senior's Greek and Latin are about as 'sick' as Prof. Hubner...
...valuable man, has graduated and gone abroad, while Parrott, also a powerful oarsman, will hardly consent to again take a seat, and Peters' father is opposed to his again making one of the eight. Captain Flanders, however, is hopeful, and will immediately commence the work of preparation for the big college event on the water.-Clipper...
...additional penny by not using gas in the chapel on very dark days, when it is needed. The pulpit alone is lighted, while the poor beings below and above stand in the dim, sacred light of the painted windows and vainly endeavor to make out through the gloom the big letters of the psalm books. Much good eyesight is being uselessly squandered in these rash attempts to follow the service, while the "powers that be" calmly look on at the destruction...