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Word: mobbed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...back bone of our country, and that they have made our country what it is. Let immigrants come to America if they want to, and let them do for the Westwhat they have done for the East. Mr. C. C. Ramsay, so. second on the affirmative, said that mob-violence and strikes fully testify to the character of immigrants. The immigrants are low and do American no possible good; moreover, their object is not to benefit our country, but to get as much as possible out of it and return to their native land. Again the capacity for labor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Union Debate. | 3/29/1889 | See Source »

...essential for the victory in the struggles which have to be met. This may not seem to be the case. But it will be found that such discipline will serve us in the hour of danger as does the discipline of the trained British soldiers against the fanatical Arab mob...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Baccalaureate Sermon. | 6/20/1887 | See Source »

...themselves and the men they oppose. The college has suffered long enough for the squabbles and corrupt performances of the Union. That society, unless something is done to stay its progress, is, as one of its own members declared at a recent meeting, "fast degenerating into a mob...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/2/1887 | See Source »

...than the students. A while ago the path from the library to Grays Hall was monopolized by "bobs" loaded with precious freight in the shape of "muckers" young and old, enjoying a pleasant coast. Now there is not a smooth strip of ice in the yard on which a mob of Cambridge youths do not slide during the entire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/15/1887 | See Source »

...alarm from box 54 last evening at about half past eight o'clock, called out an excited and eager mob of students, who rushed along in headlong haste, expecting to see Memorial Hall already in the resistless arms of the devouring element. After a delay of some minutes, it was discovered that the upper part of the house of Mr. Charles W. Sever, 12 Frisbie Place, was on fire. Engine No. 1 was the first to get to work, and was able to supply enough water without further assistance from the other engines. Inspired by the applause of hand-clapping...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/28/1886 | See Source »

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