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Word: boomerangers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1882-1882
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...becoming very evident that the recent brilliant boycotting and bulldozing expedition of a certain Cambridge tradesman undertaken against the students of Harvard, as represented by the Co-operative Society, has become metamorphosed into a very troublesome boomerang. The Co-operative Society could not wish for better fortune than to be thus assailed. It has now become a matter of honor with every Harvard student to lend the society his heartiest support in opposition to this foolish attack upon its interests and their own. The Co-operative Society may be only an experiment, but as such the students of Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/26/1882 | See Source »

Down at Durango last week one of the miners on the night shift, in an unguarded moment, kicked the mud off his feet against a can of giant powder, and the coroner had to go after him with a requisition from the governor and a crumb brush. - [Boomerang...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/2/1882 | See Source »

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