Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...rather please the northern winds, which blow...
...wind cannot forever blow...
...obeyed directions, and put my stub carefully on my knee. Then she covered my mouth with her handkerchief, and bade me blow the smoke through it, which I did, leaving that brown spot you see there...
...reasons, first, that I could not write temperately concerning what I deemed stupid obstinacy on the part of Harvard boating-men; and, second, because I could not claim to have been a University oar. But now that the idol of the Harvard oar has received one square blow, I am tempted to endeavor to administer another, hoping thereby to knock said idol completely off its pedestal, and smash it into flinders. Complete iconoclasm is what is needed...
...that such and such a man is to be opposed because he happens to be a member of the Tweedledum Society and that so-and-so should be supported because he belongs to the Tweedledee Fraternity, they would show themselves worthy of respect as men and would strike a blow at a relic of boyishness. If the offices are filled without reference to the artificial lines which cut up the class, and adaptability is the only criterion by which candidates are judged, we venture to predict that in every instance the result will be satisfactory...