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Word: meaningfulness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
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Every robbery and defalcation, from that of the clerk who took the money from the letters in the Post-Office to the more recent case of the Albany cashier, was committed for the selfish purpose of living better. The former bought a house for his parents; the others took what...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECENT EVENTS. | 10/24/1873 | See Source »

JUVENAL, Sat. VI., line 160. Et vetus indulget senibus dementia porcis. The words indulget senibus porcis are usually translated "grants long life to pigs." A new meaning, however, was put upon them by a Junior in a late recitation, who read the line as follows: "And ancient clemency indulges the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 10/10/1873 | See Source »

I might extend this piece indefinitely by showing synonymous expressions for words now in use here, such as "nuts," equivalent to "scrub," "mossy heads" to "senior," "cad" to "snob," "busky" to "sprung," "suck" to "crib"; but enough has been given. Even the tutors and professors are not exempted from nicknames...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE NOMENCLATURE. | 6/20/1873 | See Source »

One word before we close in regard to the tone of the Republican's criticism of the Magenta. We pass by as of little consequence the sneers concerning our "fine-sounding but meaningless" phrases; either the Republican would not find a meaning (which conduct was highly immoral in a paper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/20/1873 | See Source »

IT is the good or bad fortune of the present age to be one of intellectual tumult and revolution. The Christian world, like a man just awakening to the knowledge of his own faculties, has begun to question the truth of what it has been taught to accept as dogma...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CULTURE. | 6/13/1873 | See Source »

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