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Word: disgusting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cambridge muckers, make of themselves, by continually rushing in and out among the spectators, yelling and hooting and making themselves generally obnoxious to everybody. These atoms of brass even go so far as frequently to run across the foot-ball field, to the annoyance of the players and the disgust of the spectators. Now-as they well know-these embyro ruffains have no business whatever to cross the fence which bounds Jarvis on its four sides. The (college) law says so, and if the law were only like those of the Medes and Persians, we should not be continually bothered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 11/10/1887 | See Source »

...into right field, but no one was there. On the first ball pitched he made for second but Bannister dropped the ball, and Wiestling could not be credited with a steal. He stole third, however, making a splendid slide and was declared safe by the umpire much to the disgust of many partisans present. Foster made a slow hit to short-stop who fielded him out at first but Wiestling had scored. Campbell came to the bat and knocked the ball for two bases. He came in on Willard's hit to right field. Henshaw struck to third base...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Season Begun. | 5/2/1887 | See Source »

...Wanderings of Alexis" are still going on, and the interesting part of them is that there is such a mixture of sense and nonsense in them, one can scarcely tell whether to go on reading or toss the paper away in disgust. In the last number the disgust won the battle. In this number the temptation is the same, but the piece is written in an easy style which has held the reader till...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 1/24/1887 | See Source »

...news of the University of Pennsylvania game did not reach Cambridge until very late yesterday, much to the disgust of a host of anxious inquirers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/26/1886 | See Source »

...York. Under these circumstances Princeton was compelled to accede to the demand that New Haven be the place for the game "although Yale would much have preferred to play in New York" as the Yale News says. The excitement has been renewed this year much to the disgust of the impartial observers. Yale has said that she will not play at Princeton this year although in all equity she is bound to do so. The editorial from the Princetonian published in another column gives us the Princeton side of the question. We advise all our readers to peruse it carefully...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/23/1886 | See Source »

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