Word: master
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...special function of all these, and who invented the nomenclature, is not clearly known. About the Discursive only is there no doubt. The originator was Paleontologus. This man, as his name denotes, was a Greek. He came to England, and adopted it as his paternal land, but could never master the language. There was one word which offered a special difficulty. He could never pronounce Niagara, like other people, but called it to the last Ni-a-ga-ra. However, he is best known as the inventor and representative of the Discursive Faculty, and used often to verify the verses...
...their meeting of Monday last, the class of '82 voted to have a supper Wednesday, March 10. Messrs. F. M. Stone, Waring, and Storer were appointed an executive committee; Mr. Pendleton, chorister; Mr. Foster, poet; Mr. Panin, orator; Mr. Edgerly, toast-master; and Messrs. Pendleton, Wister, and Burton, a committee to prepare the class songs...
Thus spake my master as we clambered...
...Master," quoth I, "pray may I speak with...