Word: deadly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...report that Nat Brigham is dead is contradicted by the Boston papers...
...worthy of some sort of action. Yet how different are the facts. Thursday, a few minutes before twelve, members of the upper classes on their way to recitation were surprised and dazed at a wonderful sight. Fifteen or twenty men left University at that moment and started on a dead run in the direction of Harvard street. A half dozen more joined the troop at Weld, and as History 2 was just pouring forth its hosts, at least thirty men went from among them on the same excited...
...test the matter in another way, the catalogue of the publishing firm was taken, which is recognized as publishing the most representative list of American books. Here strictly professional books were ruled out, and the authors divided into two classes, the dead and the living. Of the dead there are forty-two names. Ten, or less than one-fourth were not college men. Of the living, we count 133 names. Fifty-one, or more than one third, are not college men. Of course, this cannot be called a scientific test, yet it approximates such a test, and shows with tolerable...
...graduate of Chicago University, who had once been arrested for stealing books in that city, has been hanging around Cambridge for some time and making a practice of stealing whatever he could find. The unfortunate man was arrested and locked up in Station 1. Shortly afterwards he was found dead in his cell, having taken poison. We give space to this explanation in order to prevent any mistakes in the columns of our contemporaries...
Half-mile walk. Dead heat between H. H. Bemis, '87, and E. C. Wright, '86; time, 3m. 36s. This event was creditable, considering the unfavorable weather...