Word: expression
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...beaten, that is, if the title of champion is subject to the same rules as the cap or the belt which the Advocate speaks of, then Princeton would be champion were it not for one consideration. The belt, which the Advocate takes by way of illustration (unless there are express agreements and conditions concerning it) is held subject to challenge. In the case of the title to the championship there are no agreements and conditions; and Yale has challenged Princeton, and Princeton has refused the challenge, thus forfeiting the title which would be hers if we granted that the championship...
...pledged to be my wife! Words ill express...
...members of the K. N. Society left last year some twenty dollars to the members of '83, with the express condition that they are to use it as a contribution to a fund for getting a room for the Society. Some of the '82 men proposed to have a supper from the money left over in the treasury. The majority ruled that money left over thus does not belong to the individual members, but to the Society as such. For this reason it left the money to '83, with the condition above. This year, however, the Society did have...
...have seen it. There were those who sneered at the superlative adjectives on the large red and blue posters; there were others who refused to believe that any show could equal Barnum's; but they all now agree that the posters, far from exaggerating, did not half express the wealth of this circus, and that it beat Barnum...
...less than a year. The ship which I took at Canton brought me first to San Francisco. The people of that city showed me great respect. Whenever they saw me on the street, they crowded around me and shouted "Oh, see the Chinaman; pull his pigtail; knock him down!" - expressions which, my interpreter told me, signified great pleasure of seeing me. Some even actually pulled my long plait of hair, - evidently a very high compliment. For the Americans express good-will by touching one another. When pleased with themselves they rub their own hands; when pleased with others, they...