Word: bolt
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this year, owing to the fact that some Repnblicans of the college have bolted the party nominees, they want the parade to bolt its old custom and turn out with Democratic banners. The effect of this is to make the procession a political demonstration. This has never been done before, and is altogether wrong...
...Anti-Blaine meeting yesterday, called to organize a Republican bolt, President Eliot was among the speakers. He thought there was very little prospect that the Democrats will nominate men whom Independents can support, and he therefore argued for a new party. He said he could speak for the young men-for those who have become voters during the last ten years-in saying that they are disgusted with platforms which read double, intended to deceive, as well as with the parties which make such platforms. The young men stand ready to welcome an honest party with an honest platform. President...
...Bolt, an illustrated annual issued by the students of the Stevens Institute of Technology, has just appeared, and proves to be quite a unique publication...
...wife has yet seen the ark. Of the identity of the vessel discovered by Dr. Schliemann with the original ark there can be no doubt, inasmuch as the name "Ark" is still on her stern in raised gilt letters. There was also found entangled with a ring-bolt on her starboard side, close to her "Plimsoll's mark," a rubber watch coat with Noah's name on the inside of the collar. Dr. Schliemann is naturally very proud of his discovery, and he is so much encouraged by it that he is seriously thinking of discovering the Garden with...
...only word we have for voluntarily omitting recitation or chapel, has a number of synonyms. At Columbia they prefer to slope, at Michigan University they bolt, and in some of the western "educational institutions" they skate Mr. Black is unable to find derivations for these words. Slope is to be found in Hotten's Slang Dictionary, meaning "to decamp, run off," and is called an Americanism. Cut is found in the same place, meaning "to stop, cease to do anything...