Word: mucked
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...understanding of a vital subject, to read, within a day or two, in the columns of one of our city journals, which has over and over again devoted half a page to minute and brutal accounts of a prize fight, an indignant paragraph on the "barbarism" and "run-a-muck culture" of the Harvard-Princeton game. It declares: "The fierce tumult of young passins, the battered features, the contused limbs, the broken bones, the sprains and welts, and gashes, and bloodstains that made the record of last Saturday's football contest over at Cambridge are enough to fill the thoughts...
...landscape gardening Harvard certainly does not excel. Much as we prize the beauty of the yard as it is, we think that there is still great room for improvement. It is but a few days since the authorities in a well-meaning way spread a nasty mess of muck over the entire yard, the odors arising from which being not only offensive but unhealthy. We would remind the fossiliferous yokel who has charge of the farming department of the university, that the fertilizer in question is now only used in the cultivation of potatoes and cabbages in rural districts...