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Word: deadness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Bounties are wasteful. (a) They cause a dead loss to national wealth; (b) they require increased government machinery to distribute them; (c) they encourage producers to disregard the laws of supply and demand.- Nation, Jan. 17, 1889; Fort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English 6. | 3/18/1889 | See Source »

...Goes back too far, breaks his arms too soon, and rows mechanically. Should put more life in his work. His rowing is dead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Senior Crew. | 2/13/1889 | See Source »

...Crematory," is a story relating the experience of a victim prematurely given up for dead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 2/7/1889 | See Source »

...fullest work of the kind which has ever appeared. Not only is the name, time of birth and death of the student given, but his place of birth, where he prepared for college, his class and rank in college, his subsequent career, and if the man is dead, the place of his death, and the name and address of a near relative. It also states his honors and degrees, if any, and if the man has married, when, where, and to whom, number of children and their names. In the account of his career after leaving college, mention is made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumni Records at Wesleyan. | 1/30/1889 | See Source »

Space will not permit accounts of later contests between Harvard and Yale. It is only fair to say, in explanation of the large scores made in some of the games, that a very lively ball was then in use, which was much more difficult to handle than the modern "dead" ball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Early History of Harvard-Yale baseball. | 12/22/1888 | See Source »

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