Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Thin, sor, there's nobody what can make beds the loike 'o me. I well remembers the time whin me little boy tommy was down with the fever, he's dead now, sor, and it's a poor woman that I am, sor, -whin I found in one 'o the beds sich a nice soft blanket, sor, that I knowed it wud make him well, sor; so I jest borrowed it fer a day or two, sor, and it cured him completely. I've always felt so grateful loike ter that blanket that I've niver been able ter part...
Speaking of the innovation at Yale by which the old custom of delivering unintelligible orations in dead tongues has been done away with, a leading educational journal says...
...Cricket Club is not dead, then, after all. It has only been hibernating and proposes to awake from its slumbers in the spring. But it has not been the fault of the gentlemen who composed the club that its record of late has been so uneventful. They have been working, as it were, with tied hands, owing to their inability to secure proper grounds on which to practice their favorite sport. Their efforts to obtain better accommodations have at last, however, been crowned by success, and with new and beautiful grounds it is but fair to expect the club...
...Columbia Bicycle Club is dead...
...Columbia Spectator asks whether foot ball is entirely dead...