Word: know
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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AMONG the traditionary anecdotes which descend from class to class, there is one of a certain student who, when asked, in a recitation, what a legal holiday was, replied that he did not know, for he never had anything to do with one. This story, though told as a joke, has a significance which may well cause us to blush for the narrow spirit which prevails in the government of our College...
...snowy true-love knot, I know...
...know them well from days of yore...
...know these wedding-gifts by rote...
...find this expression strangely coincident with our own cant phrase, "know a thing or two." Also of. CARLYLE, passim...