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Word: deadness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Calling, O, come and be dead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TENDER MADRIGALS BY COLLEGE POETS. | 5/7/1884 | See Source »

...interesting tug-of-war is reported from Texas. A horse-thief and gravity against the limb of a tree. At first there was a tie, then the first side got the drop. Subsequently the leader of the gang pronounced it a "dead heat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLIPPINGS FROM "QUIP." | 4/26/1884 | See Source »

...love for political excitement sometimes led him into strange situations. On one occasion, when the streets of Cambridge were filled with crowds of votes, excited over a closely contested election, he was hit full in the face by a dead cat. The aggressor came forward and very civilly asked pardon, offering the explanation that the compliment had been intended for a Mr. Adeane. Macaulay good-naturedly accepted the apology, saying, "I only wish you had meant it for me, and hit Mr. Adeane...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MACAULAY AT CAMBRIDGE. | 3/28/1884 | See Source »

...freshman who translated de mortuis nil nisi bonum: "From the dead nothing but bones," has a brilliant career awaiting him in the medical profession...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 3/14/1884 | See Source »

...learning and philosophy, history, political economy, and the natural sciences, to be admitted to equal rank and dignity in every college curriculum, and to an equality of value as studies preparatory to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, with those more honored but no more important ancient and dead languages so long allowed exclusive privilege, and with those mathematics which are dead without their sister sciences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRES. ELIOT ON LIBERAL EDUCATION. | 3/7/1884 | See Source »

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