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Word: dryest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...feel that they have at last helped to make the colleges safe for the young man. That a college is a wild and wicked place, and that of all colleges Harvard has been for years the wildest and wickedest, has been a fond belief in some of the dryest circles in the country. Days of profligacy and nights of drunkenness were supposed to constitute the life of the Harvard undergraduate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 9/24/1919 | See Source »

...instructor in English composition Barrett Wendell was probably the foremost of Americans. His textbook, which has generally supplanted the old rule of thumb volumes that made composition one of the dryest of studies, is itself an entertaining literary work. He has endeavored, with considerable success, to make writing a pleasure rather than a task...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Barrett Wendell--An Appreciation. | 1/22/1917 | See Source »

...part of the marsh lands at Soldiers Field. Heretofore the lacrosse field was too low and consequently was nearly always soft and muddy. This fault has now been remedied, an average of twenty inches having been made on four acres. This will make the plot one of the dryest and best at Soldiers Field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUTDOOR LACROSSE TODAY | 3/16/1914 | See Source »

Heretofore the lacrosse field was too low and consequently was nearly always soft and muddy. This fault has now been remedied, an average fill of 20 inches having been made on four acres. This will make the plot one of the dryest and best of the entire Soldiers Field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Recovery of Marsh Lands at Field | 3/7/1914 | See Source »

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