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Word: downs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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Down on the herdsmen flying.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIRVENTE. | 5/22/1874 | See Source »

THE text-books a man is compelled to buy, in passing through the four years of his college course, would present, if kept together, quite an imposing array at the end of the Senior year. Many of these are disposed of at second-hand bookstores, or handed down to those...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRIVATE LIBRARIES. | 5/22/1874 | See Source »

The way the plan works in practice is this. The men may be divided roughly into two classes, - the first consisting of those who know little or nothing about the subject, the second, of those better informed. Members of the first class calculate how many pages they can write in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PURE CRAMMING. | 5/22/1874 | See Source »

YOU, my leetle dears, you 've paid your money, and you shall see the grand and glorious sights of 'istory and nature, vich vill henlarge the hintelleckt and gratify the cravinks of the expandin' soul for the glorious and sublime facts and figgers of this revolvin' and orbicular planet upon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ENGLISH SHOWMAN. | 5/22/1874 | See Source »

After a half-hour past the time appointed for the beginning of the game, the McGill men, dressed in the English foot-ball suit, straggled into the field, and, after a few minutes, were followed by a shabby-looking set of men, who turned out to be the Harvard Ten...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FOOT-BALL MATCH. | 5/22/1874 | See Source »

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