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Word: dooms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...That place where many Freshmen hear their doom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SNODKINS'S VISION. | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

...bring the crack of doom before its time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO THE MUSIC OF THE FUTURE. | 9/27/1878 | See Source »

...their valuable fund to the resources of polite conversation. The little Britannicus is said to have been sitting at one of those tables when he took the poison. His fate was, to be sure, a severe and an undeserved one; but it was hardly more cruel than the doom I desired would fall on the imp who haunted me last evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES." | 4/5/1878 | See Source »

...more mischief, and lead to more stringent rules respecting singing in the Yard. The yelling of a few blatant fellows rendered garrulous by a fictitious stimulant has occurred, and must of necessity occur, until the wine-press is counted among the Lost Arts, the crack of doom, or some other indefinitely distant period. Yet we trust the men who have caused this noise have done so unwittingly, and will show the good sense so peculiar to a Harvard undergraduate by abstaining from this school-boy habit of coming home yelling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/10/1875 | See Source »

...death's release from fitting doom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE THREE GRAY SISTERS. | 3/13/1874 | See Source »

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