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Word: misfit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reward for any stain that we cannot remove from cloth, or for any garment that is brought to our establishment and is not properly repaired, or for any misfit we make. We manufacture all kinds of athletic goods. Call and see the newly invented parcimento seat on our tights. Sole agent for Ollendoff's pants stretcher. J. F. Noera, 436 Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notices. | 2/5/1886 | See Source »

...itself, yet involves a principle which is of no small moment. We allude to the action of a well-known firm in this place in bringing suit against one of the students who refused to take a suit of clothes which did not fit him. That it was a misfit there is not a particle of doubt. But our worthy shop-keepers, strong in the consciousness that they have Ithaca justice on their side, determine that he shall take it, suited or not. On application to a lawyer it is found that a student, when making a bargain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 6/2/1882 | See Source »

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