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Word: crookedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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This course is somewhat more crooked than the old. From the start it runs 1 1-2 miles straight-away at which point it is some 400 feet to the west or right of the old course. It then deflects to the east for 3-4 of a mile and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRIANGULAR RACE. | 2/18/1898 | See Source »

The problem was difficult. The crooked Tennessee River had to be passed, as well as rough mountainous country. The most direct road was to move around the town, north of the river, and attack from the northeast. But this road was long and far from the base of supplies. Moreover...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DR. FISKE'S LECTURE. | 12/21/1895 | See Source »

The cultus of the dead comprises the observances and offerings paid to the dead as sentient beings. So widespread has been this cultus from the earliest ages that Spencer tries to derive all religion from it. Savage minds connect events in causal sequence very readily and they invoke the dead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Carpenter's Lecture. | 10/12/1894 | See Source »

tfLOST. - A silk umbrella, with crooked handle. Left either at the Cooperative store or at the Weld Boat House. Will the finder kindly return to the porter of the club house or to 50 Weld Hall?

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notice. | 10/6/1894 | See Source »

FOUND a cane with crooked handle. Can have by applying at Leavitt & Peirce's and paying for advertisement.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notice. | 11/5/1892 | See Source »

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