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Word: loaf (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...loaf on rich divans, and loll At ease...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: By a Pitying Sophomore. | 1/24/1879 | See Source »

...represented in either race. For this we must not look down on Weld, much less on Beck; but rather we must envy their intensely enlightened and cultivated condition, which raises them above ignoble struggles in a club boat to the glorious realms of infinite "loaf." The other clubs are fast approaching this delicious state. Our races must be sacrificed, but let us comfort ourselves: the sacrifice is to the noble cause of civilization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/26/1877 | See Source »

...would loaf to a degree...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SENIOR'S LAMENT. | 6/15/1877 | See Source »

...simply a farce." I can hardly believe that a calm examination of the facts would bear out this assertion, and it would be well to remember that in all probability the Faculty did not make the Senior recitations voluntary in order to render Senior year a comfortable "loaf...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FAULT-FINDING AT COLLEGE. | 3/24/1876 | See Source »

...exercise of the intellectual powers. How many hours we fritter away in a hundred employments that we might devote to the permanent improvement of the mind! But engaged in attending to this base body of ours, we forget all higher aims. We eat, we drink, we walk, we loaf, we dance, we take off and put on our European clothes, we sleep, we busy ourselves with Eastlake furniture, when we should be cultivating our minds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOME STARTLING FACTS. | 2/11/1876 | See Source »

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