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Word: broken (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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GROUND has been broken for the building in which the Pi Eta will have its new rooms. The building will be on the site of Levy's former shop, Brattle Street, nearly opposite the University Press...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tempora. | 2/25/1876 | See Source »

...battered bark with broken masts and wind-dismantled sails...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AFTER BROWNING. | 1/28/1876 | See Source »

SOME of the broken windows in Hollis have already been mended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 1/28/1876 | See Source »

...result, then, of the Directors' investigation is, a general commendation of the management of the Dining-Hall, and the fair interpretation of the figures and facts collected by them can support no other result. As to that mythical "contract" which a writer in the Advocate paraded in all its broken splendor, where each table was represented as having signed away its birthright to beer and brandy for the services of an undivided waiter, and then to have been cruelly defrauded of several shares in that waiter by a merciless College, - we can only answer that that scheme (alias contract) existed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EHEU! EHEU! | 1/28/1876 | See Source »

...strain. And here all the fun comes in, since the danger is necessarily very great. Often a load will upset, and girls and boys will be flung together into a huge drift; then of course the screaming and laughing is immense, except when one has a leg or arm broken, and then the laugh is more likely to appear on the other side...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TABOGGINNING. | 1/14/1876 | See Source »

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