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Word: cheeks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...taken. I can imagine nothing more gratifying to those who played the trick than to see students and instructors gravely discussing the moral aspects of an affair, which, when the worst has been granted, is nothing but a "Freshman trick." When a newspaper in all solemnity declares that "the cheek of every true Harvard man should blush for shame" for such an occurrence, and that such conduct threatens the very existence of the lecture system of instruction, the affair becomes more comic than its perpetrators could possibly have hoped. When we are grave they call us stiff-necked and blase...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 1/28/1898 | See Source »

...Tree. It has been proposed that instead of the scrimmage, to which there seems to be so much objection, there should be a shower of flowers from the Tree upon the heads of the Seniors as they stand grouped about it. This would seem to be a pretty certain cheek upon all combinations and unnecessary disorder; and, on the other hand, the old flower tradition would be retained and the mementos prized as highly as ever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 1/26/1897 | See Source »

...University of California has added several good men with records to their track team, namely: Cheek '99, pole vault 10 ft. 5.5 in., running broad jump 21 ft. 11.75 in., running high jump 5 ft. 7 in., shot put 39 ft., 100 yard dash 11 sec., Marmon '99, 100 yards 102/5 sec., 440 yards 52 sec.; Loyd, shot put 39 ft. 7 in., pole vault 10 ft., running broad jump...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/5/1895 | See Source »

...Cambridge Safe Deposit and Trust Co., at No. 424 and 426 Harvard St., cor. of Linden, transacts a general banking business. Checks will be cashed on any Bank or Banking House in the U. S. and interest is allowed upon daily balances subject to cheek. Special attention given to accounts with officers and students of the University. Banking hours 8 to 2. Safety Vaults open from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notice. | 1/10/1894 | See Source »

...blow. Gunnar is warned not to kill twice in the same lineage, but his cousin Mord treacherously causes him to kill the son of a father whom he has already killed. Gunnar is outlawed and refusing to leave Iceland is killed. His wife remembering the blow on the cheek refuses to help him. Kolskegg became captain of the warring guard at Constantinople...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Njal's Saga. | 12/4/1891 | See Source »

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