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Word: chummed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Mobilier shares they own. They are one of the drawbacks of student life, but we must submit to them as to so many other extortions. It is with a view to making this submission easy that I offer the following plan. It is the joint production of myself and chum. We thought it carefully out in accordance with the canons of taxation. It is arranged, you will notice, so that

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A CURIOSITY IN LITERATURE. | 4/18/1873 | See Source »

...moral results of this scheme were excellent, but yet the contribution-box was never empty; and I put in the most money, for the provocations to profanity which an ingenious chum can invent are infinite. But although there was always some money in the box, it seemed to me that pretty large amounts disappeared regularly, and I was at a loss to account for them, until I detected my chum in subscribing for the latest scientific work by Cowan, and paying for it out of the charity-fund. I earnestly remonstrated, telling him I thought Mr. B -, the agent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A CURIOSITY IN LITERATURE. | 4/18/1873 | See Source »

...chum has gone down to get some lumber to board up our keyhole. These Hollis keyholes are about the size of a window...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A LETTER. | 2/21/1873 | See Source »

...tell you of the low trick played on a dun by my chum last year. My chum had been deluded enough to subscribe to one of those periodical editions of Don Quixote, under the pleasing belief that it would be a fine thing to acquire Cervantes in so cheap a manner. "Just think!" he said. "Only fifty cents to be paid each week. And, really, every fellow should own Don Quixote." Affairs went on smoothly for two or three weeks. The payments were prompt, and each number of the periodical was eagerly devoured. But at about the time mentioned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DUNS. | 1/24/1873 | See Source »

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