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Word: operandi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...States mail, or the columns of a daily paper, it matters little how they advertise themselves; and no reasoning man will deny that they have a legal and moral right to do this, and to advertise their trade in any way they see fit; - the taste of their modus operandi, must necessarily be left to them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/9/1886 | See Source »

...agree to connect University and the Agassiz Museum with a telephone, and lay down plank walks in the Yard. I have agreed to do this, and so the entrance to the tube will be at the Gymnasium, and the exit at the billiard-room of Parker's. The modus operandi is as follows: You sit inside of the tube on a seat like those of the rowing-machines, a wad is placed at your back, and at a given signal a Yale man kicks the wad, and you are pitched forward at a rate that will bring you to Parker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EDISON'S LATEST. | 3/5/1880 | See Source »

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