Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...HINT TO BUTLER.Mr. Quincy declares in his recently published reminiscences of Andrew Jackson that the old soldier bore himself well in the face of the Latin which the scholars of Cambridge discharged at him when they conferred on him the degree...
...ends;' the 'striker out' is transformed into the 'non-server,' and the 'server' into the 'striker;' sometimes they are called 'hand-in' and 'hand-out,' when tennis scoring is employed, as is now universally the case. It is too much to hope that the rising generation will take a hint, and endeavor to call things (especially lawn tennis) by their correct names." The players of lawn tennis in college should take the hint so freely offered and put to shame the bitter pessimism of that last sentence...
...ways of a college catalogue, and particularly of a Harvard catalogue, are dark and mysterious. In the arts of delay Penelope herself is outdone by one of these. Perhaps, indeed, a hint is taken from this Homeric legend, and the compositor employs his nights in distributing the type that his days are occupied in setting up. However, repeated delays bring lots of free advertising, and make the final enjoyment all the sweeter, in addition to furnishing a splendid school of patience to innumerable amateur Jobs...
...other nations is on the increase, while ours is on the verge of annihilation. In respect to trade our government is tyrannical. The lecturer then gave an historical view of trade. As far as we can discover, the Phoenicians and Tyrians had free trade. There is no hint that the Greeks or Romans were prevented by any John Roach of their day from purchasing their ships wherever they wished. During the Middle Ages the tariffs were levied on a sliding scale, i. e., the captain of a vessel was obliged to walk the plank. Charles V. was an inventive genius...
...into the Memorial Hall board business? Am I to write eternal communications, and are you to indite endless editorials and reports with no better results than we have as yet attained? Before we came to college it was different with us writers for the press, when, at our slightest hint of dissatisfaction innumerable mass meetings and investigating committees, and I don't know what all, used to arise to right the wrongs at which we so sternly pointed the finger of scorn. But now things seem to be altogether changed. These Harvard man are quite too incomprehensible. "Tis another exhibition...