Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...stepped out and spent several minutes in finding a place to put the ball. Having selected a suitable spot he brought out an egg-shaped article covered with yellow leather and deposited it with tender care on the spot. Then a slim boyish looking fellow took half a dozen quick steps forward and let out at the ball with all the grace and force of the hereafter of a Kentucky mule. The ball sailed away into the air, and the entire crowd went tearing after it. It came down and bounded once. A Wesleyan man seized it, and a Princeton...
There was singing by the choir this afternoon at 5 o'clock, twenty-four boys and twelve men, of course all in surplices. Besides the choir and clergy there were not more than a dozen persons present, who are only admitted by ticket, usually secured some days beforehand. The lovely, though dim and solemn, chapel is small, having seating room for not more than 200 people. The entire evening service of the Church of England was intoned and sung, and a more perfect and worshipful religious service it has never been my privilege to engage in. Two of the boys...
Members of the Co-operative Society will be furnished Ayers tennis balls now at $4.75 per dozen, or at 40 cents per ball...
...secretary of the Tennis Association will freely supply all members with the Ayres regulation ball at 40 cents each, or $4.80 per dozen. This is the lowest rate at which these balls can be obtained...
...college songs are to be really worthy of the name, they must be sung by a chorus of all the students - no limited club is sufficient. If we want college songs in the evenings, let us all join in, and not expect our dozen of fine singers to ruin their voices, by trying to inspire us sybarites with the proud feeling that "we sing college songs at Harvard...