Word: downs
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Nicholas's voice is a rare one, full, rich, and uncultivated, yet very sweet withal. I remember that often, crossing the Public Garden, and hearing the familiar voice singing, under a Beacon Hill window, I have had the bad taste to sit down upon one of the benches to listen...
English vs. American Colleges. Bell's Life, under date of March 2, says that Oxford neither threw down the gauntlet to American colleges, nor did they take it up, or purpose doing so. If any college enters at Henley and takes its chance of meeting an Oxford or Cambridge boat...
Again it was suggested that if we take the words ce qui pend au talon, "that which hangs down to the heels," and then erase all but the verb and the noun, we shall retain the sound of pantalons, from which the present spelling might well arise. The word, at...
He'd throw down stairs his overshoes to intimate a "go."
...Captains from Yale, Columbia, Princeton, and Harvard. Probably no association would be formed. As to trophies, the balls used at the match-games were not satisfactory for exhibition; and he therefore proposed a prize-flag for every game. After some discussion, it was recommended that three touch-downs should equal a goal, and that four touch-downs should win over a goal, but that a touch-down from which a goal was kicked should not count separately. Captain Cushing urged the team to train somewhat before returning next autumn, when they must work hard and regularly. He spoke...