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Word: greene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...never accomplished until vacation comes. One day of rest, too, from the monotonous routine work of this season of the year, would be greeted with that same feeling of sublime relief with which the traveller of the desert is said to be imbued when he perceives the green oasis rising 'midst the Saharan sands. It has been urged in some quarters that a recess of one day would be worse than useless, and that the day would be literally wasted. This is not so, however, for in our belief, every one would do better work in the weeks which follow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/22/1887 | See Source »

...violence never is an ultimately successful thing, especially if it is illegally resorted to. In three days the strikers will have either gone back to their posts, or will have none to go back to; their only satisfaction and that a brief one, will be to see the green conductors ringing the bell-punch to stop a car, and the green drivers jumping switches and running off the track...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Strike. | 2/14/1887 | See Source »

...colored student, named Green, is one of the most promising candidates for this years' base-ball nine of the University of Pennsylvania...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/12/1887 | See Source »

...waves, succeeded at last in getting upon the crest of a heavy rowller, upon which they easily passed the rival boats and won by just one width; of the days of old when the freshmen beat the sophomores at bawl, and the seniors played hot Scotch on the College Green between Harvard and Massachusetts Halls, of how - but the rest we leave to the vivid pen of our historian. We make especial mention of this series of papers, in order that, at the close of this distressing period of the college year, we may assure ourselves that our readers will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/10/1887 | See Source »

...York dined at the Brunswick last Thursday night, and heard Prof. Alexander Johnston speak upon "The New Princeton." An election of officers were first held, resulting in the choice of President Henry J. Van Dyke, D. D., '73; Vice-Presidents, James W. Alexander, '60; Hon. R. S. Green, '51; John Cadwalder, '59; J. Coleman Drayton, '76, and Charles S. Scribner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 2/5/1887 | See Source »

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