Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...about the north entry of Thayer was covered yesterday morning with the charred leaves of a burnt text book. One leaf, whose edges only had been burned, showed that the book was a Latin dictionary. On one side was the word moneo with its definitions. This leaf took the hint and escaped the flames...
While it is the privilege of elderly graduates to give as many interesting facts about life at Harvard in the past as they please, it is certainly unfair for them to hint that the representatives of the University have ever competed for "liberal purses." It is a pity that a journal, even if "unofficial," of such prodigious circulation as the Register, should give any such impression to the world about our Athletic representatives who work faithfully for the University...
...Muzzey may have heard the above dark hint from the same authority who furnished him with the information that "the walls of old Massachusetts, with the portraits of so many worthies as look down on the spectacle, contain enclosed for all time the gilded trophies of victory by the oar and ball...
...plethoric Irish female in the apartment with a crying infant in her arms. I saw that Tennyson's countenance had a rapt, far-away look, so I said pleasantly, "Composing, eh? Sonnet on a weeping infant, - ah! very tender, very touching! Can't I give you a hint...
...should hint you understood...