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Word: gum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wildly dream that two dollars more may be scraped together, and the magnificent total of sixty dollars reached. Ninety, we are proud of you. You are a noble example of heroic self-sacrifice and lavish generosity. You must have been saving your pennies and denying yourselves candy and chewing-gum ever since you entered college! But what would a man not sacrifice for his college! Harvard men have always been pointed out as exemplars of patriotism; but the fame of Ninety shall surpass all. We can safely say that never since the organization of an university crew, has any freshman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/16/1887 | See Source »

...refectory - if that blessed old refectory is still in the land of the living, and then we turned one to another and said: "None of us ever heard of Edwards stamping his iron heel. In our days we could hardly hear the patter of Dr. McLean's gum shoes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard-Princeton. | 12/6/1886 | See Source »

Principal Bragdon of Lasell has forbidden the young ladies of that institution to chew gum, under penalty of expulsion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/1/1886 | See Source »

...authority of R. J. Burdette, there is another member of Semetic family of languages - Gum Arabic, the dialect of the toothless sons of the great desert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/1/1886 | See Source »

ultimately the victim of a gum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Joan of Arc, OR THE OLD MAID OF NEW ORLEANS. | 4/20/1885 | See Source »

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