Word: freight
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...26th of September, 1874, this triumph of American genius set out from New York Harbor, bearing the precious freight of Rufus Hatch, lobbyist, director of the company, etc., together with several other directors and a few passengers, including three ladies, whom the vile conversation of the aforesaid directors of the P. M. S. S. confined to their rooms...
Perhaps, the uncommon lightness of their freight...
Here they come! As the horse-car discharges its freight...
...detachment of five hundred from the main band of destroyers made a raid upon the Boston and Albany Railroad, tearing up its track the entire distance between Boston and Springfield, each Sophomore putting one thousand rails in his vest-pocket; freight-trains were trampled under foot, station-houses were ground to powder, and the Owl train from New York, while running at the rate of seventy-five miles an hour, was seized by a gigantic student and hurled a distance of three miles, landing upside down in Miller's River, and terrible was the death which its passengers suffered...
...hurried up the hall and down, and staggered 'neath my freight...