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Word: curiously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...plastering in the room was shaken loose, and the wood work, paper and ornaments were badly scorched. Everything was in great disorder in the room when the CRIMSON reporter entered it; masons were engaged in tearing down plaster and cleaning away the rubbish caused by the explosion, curious men stood in groups and surveyed the wreck with great interest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Ghastly Calamity. | 10/23/1885 | See Source »

...following rather curious piece of composition was placed upon the blackboard at a teacher's institute, and a prize of a Webster's dictionary offered to any person who could read and pronounce every word correctly. The book was not carried off, however, as twelve was the lowest number of mistakes in pronunciation made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Literary Curiosity. | 10/8/1885 | See Source »

...Princetonian gives curious information about the new chair of journalism to be established at Harvard. It is interesting, but hardly true...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 6/4/1885 | See Source »

...college is to be ruled in the future as its charter causes it to be ruled at present, namely by a single man, the president, acting through a body of office holders of his own appointment, and a cabinet-not experts either-of his own suggestion. By a curious anomaly, the office-holders are the Parliament...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/30/1885 | See Source »

...their pitcher, but three hits being made off his delivery. Our men played a listless game from the first, making frequent errors, and failing utterly to fathom Heyworth's curves. After the game the excited Yale men marched in and took possession of their fence, surveyed by a curious crowd of visitors. This ceremony concluded, they gave a very enjoyable dinner to the Harvard men who accompanied the nine, which was rendered all the more enjoyable by the reading of dispatches announcing our victories at New York and Princeton. For Yale Heyworth, Lux, Allen, and Kellogg did the best work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE, '88, 14; HARVARD, '88, 4. | 5/25/1885 | See Source »

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