Word: dust
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Diamond Dust. - A note from the managers of the Bessies has been received at this office, in which the statement that this nine had disbanded is declared a malicious falsehood. The Bessies, it is said, will fill all their dates for the championship and exhibition games...
...life the lungs have a rose color; but as a person grows older, a quantity of black looking matter is found scattered through them, and sometimes forming streaks in the surface. This is shown to be corbon, and has been inhaled from time to time. Inhaling certain kinds of dust will give pulmonary consumption...
...gentle lady who pretends to make our beds, and who is supposed to sweep snd dust our rooms, has ever here at Harvard been honored by the sobriaquet of "goodey," a contraction of good wife, some say. At some colleges she is called a "sweep," at Cambridge, Eng., a "bed-maker," at Oxford, a "gyp," and at Bowdoin we believe, she goes by the name of "end-woman," because the entries are in the ends of the buildings...
...were fairly out-played. We did the best we could, but it was not good enough; Harvard did better. It is hard for men who have seen Yale's flag flying from the topmost notch ever since they have been in college, to realize that they must see it dust and mud stained for the year to come. Let it not be said of us that we who have known prosperity so long and intimately, do not know how to bear defeat, as Harvard surely will not let the converse be said of her. To the nine, all glory; they...
...arms of unusual muscularity. This man died hard. Yes, and yet his death was infinitely easier than his life had been; for the soles of his shoes are worn quite through, and the bottoms of the feet, turned toward the window, are raw and bloody and caked with the dust of a long and fearful tramp. What was his name? Whence came he, and whither was he going? What strong, strong impulse drove him to such a journey? Whom was he seeking, or from whom did he flee? No scrap of paper tells. We can only guess that the sturdy...