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Word: headings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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Proclaim that head - which, crownless, still would be - august...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "THE YOUNG AUGUSTUS." | 10/29/1875 | See Source »

...vote of the Memorial Dining-Hall Directors, each table is to choose itself a head, whose duties are to receive any complaints or suggestions of other members in regard to fare or service, in writing, and to forward them to a committee appointed for the consideration of them. This committee is at present Messrs. Jennings, L. S. S., McDuffie, '76, and Starr...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 10/15/1875 | See Source »

...finished gentleman, by the very influence of his presence and his manners, cannot fail to excite the admiration and emulation of his inferiors, no matter how much the jealousy of those inferiors may lead them to decry him. He is a fitting head for the great social body beneath him; and if his fortune will permit him to abstain from work, - by work I mean daily exertion whose ultimate object is bread-making, - he may be far more useful to the world than if his tastes and inclinations were fettered by business. But he must never be idle. Noblesse oblige...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GENTLEMEN OF LEISURE. | 10/15/1875 | See Source »

...instead of again putting off most of the coaching also till the winter is over, it ought to be done now. With three new men as strong and enduring as the present three, with adequate coaching, and two or three more strokes to the minute, with more throwing the head on, and omitting none of this year's swing and dash, and in a paper boat if it is really faster than a wooden one, there is no reason why Harvard, if she will let no rival outwork her this winter, should not again be in the first three...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/15/1875 | See Source »

...exactly like a head, but rather like a square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRANDSIR PEAVY. | 6/18/1875 | See Source »

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