Word: growed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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When Snodkins was home his girl told him that absence had only made her heart grow fonder - of the other fellow...
...good Review is even more generous yet: "The older colleges have a larger proportion of loafers. But this is not the fault of the colleges. Western colleges have less of this disturbing element now, but as they grow they will meet with the same difficulties. Indeed, some of our Western schools are even now passing the Eastern colleges in these unsatisfactory elements, and Ann Arbor, Northwestern and Oberlin may well congratulate themselves if, when they are as old as Harvard and Williams and Amherst, they turn out as fine gentlemen, as keen scholars and as earnest Christians. On this side...
...News of Feb. 28 says : "The fire this morning was a big attraction." Boys get accustomed to that kind of excitement as they grow older...
Professor - "Do you know what the sternum is?" Student - "It's the bone the tail feathers grow out of." Class all have the colic...
...such insincere matter as the most of Mr. Wilde's verses. Why, if we will but look into our own hearts, if we will but consider the mass of often excellent and promising poetry annually produced from our own midst, and then consider how little of this will ever grow and blossom into any worthy fruition, we will necessarily be cautious hereafter in staking any great hopes on any other amateur, such as Oscar Wilde even. So much for any claims Mr. Wilde may have upon us for any promise or any achievement of his own. Aside from these considerations...