Word: kills
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Students may be divided into three general classes. First, those that regard the college and all that pertains to it as a great joke, to whom study is the varies stranger, and to whom time exists only to be killed, and the devil is usually at hand to help them kill it. Second are those who, while they appreciate the value of a college education, let a spirit of indolence or overweening interest in other matters draw them from their duties. The third class commonly known as 'digs,' are those who possess a stern sense of duty, or in whose...
Forth lead your blustering hosts to kill...
Saul C. Davis, a lawyer, attempted to kill Congressman-elect John E. Lamb at Terre Haute, Indiana, yesterday...
...horizontal bar and also flying rings. However, the Greeks did not strive to excel in these gymnastic tricks as much as in boxing, wrestling and running. The boxing of the ancients, as we know from Virgil, was of a very cruel nature, the principal idea being not to kill a man, for that was prohibited by law, but to come as near to that as possible. They usually wore what, in the present parlance of the prize ring, would be termed "bard" gloves, often with the addition of brass knuckles. The wrestling was correspondingly rough, and, in regard...
...expected that the British authorities will have much difficulty in proving the alleged conspiracy to kill government officials recently developed in the examination at Dublin...