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Word: dyes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale will probably have to look elsewhere for athletic honors. Hence, with a raw university crew, an untried and discouraged nine, and the recollection of the last Yale-Princeton foot-ball game, Yale's colors are rapidly changing from navy blue to indigo of the deepest and most sombre dye...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale's Candidates for the Inter-Collegiate Contest. | 4/1/1886 | See Source »

Harvard College is not a dye tank into which the youth of the country are plunged and then emerge all of one color. No; the influence a college course will have on a young man depends, in a great measure, on the man himself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: False and True Impressions of Harvard. | 1/25/1886 | See Source »

...right). Now, mother says I am looking quite badly, and father says I smell like a barkeeper, and my cousin Mary says I am horrid, so that she has to use her smelling-bottle. And . . ." [Here we cut out some affecting lamentations.] "Help us ere we dye. Very sincerely yours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REJECTED COMMUNICATIONS. | 3/6/1882 | See Source »

...What color is your hair? Is your motto "Never say dye...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPECIMEN BRICKS. | 2/6/1880 | See Source »

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