Word: biggest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...biggest beats on record in foot ball are the following : Princeton, 140, to Latayette, 0; Yale, 115, to Dartmouth...
...suitable drum corps to head the Harvard battalions in the coming torch-light parade. Of course the first requisite for a fine drum corps is a large number of men, as the principle requisite is noise, and the colleges would be disappointed if our delegation does not have the biggest corps of drums and fifes in the procession. Every man who can play any one of the instrument named or who feels that he can learn, ought to be at Robert's Hall this morning at the time named. We hope that Mr. Winslow will not be disappointed in respect...
...mouth of the Amazon," said a professor of geology in a Chicago female seminary, "is the biggest mouth in the world-present company always excepted...
...senior class of Columbia College, New York, have voted that "co-education is undesirable from the educational, social and moral standpoint." The "standpoint" of the Columbia senior seems to be the peaceful posing on the biggest pile of college endowment in America, blandly waving aside the opposite sex as educationally, socially and morally incompatible with his perfect and exclusive enjoyment of a particularly good thing.-[Woman's Journal...
...more sensible of duty to the work itself, and, above all, better able to manage men, that first secret of fortune in almost all departments of life. The graduates, they declare, even if they keep shops or supervise building yards or manage ranches in Colorado, always try for the biggest things, and see far better than merely experienced men to what their work may lead, and what is the most reasonably probable road to success. Moreover, argue these men, descending into slang, the graduates afloat in the hard work of life "do not go muckers" in anything like the same...