Word: broken
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Conalle of Albion College recently had his nose and jaw broken in being initiated into a college secret society. Of such a sort are the superior influences of Western College life...
Three levees in Mississippi have broken...
...large fire is now raging in Haverhill; Mass. It has been burning since midnight, and is beyond the control of the firemen. Engines have been sent from Boston. Telegraph and telephone communication have been broken down. Flames were plainly visible from Boston...
...dead-lock" of the New York Legislature was broken yesterday. Tammany voted with the Republicans...
...were absent at the time, have signed a pledge not to indulge in it during their college course. During my presidency of about ten years I have always demanded pledges from those who transgressed college laws, and in all that time I never once heard of one's being broken." The N. Y. Herald reports that quiet now reigns in Princeton: "No longer does the principal thoroughfare resemble a street scene in a Christmas pantomime. The undertakers' signs cease to grace the fronts of chemists' shops. That hazing has had a knock-down at Princeton there can be no doubt...