Word: outwitted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...story of "How I was not Married." The touch is light and graceful, and hence well adapted to the plot. There are, in the course of the story, many of the delicate turns which, when skilfully handled, always add a charm of their own. Julia's clever plot to outwit the maniac minister is a particularly happy idea...
...game. They had really felt quite sure of a victory, but Stagg had an off day, and the red-jerseyed men pounded his delivery badly. He is in prime condition now, and has sworn vengeance for the drubbing his pitching got before. No one here doubts his ability to outwit his opponents if he is in good condition. He has done it so often before that the faith in him is unbounded. There is little chance that Yale will lose the championship this year...
...evil incurable, and must we always be imposed on thus? Is it not somehow in the power of editors and compilers of the pamphlets to regulate the market prices, if in no other way, at least by giving the pamphlets for publication to those who will gladly undersell and outwit a Cambridge dealer whose great trouble is chronic high prices...
...deserve the name of men or students-than the most careful surveillance of an army of proctors. If a man is trusted he is ashamed to forfeit the confidence reposed in him; but if he is suspected and watched, it is but natural for him to seek to outwit those who distrust him. Let, therefore, the plan which has been adopted in certain courses be extended, as far as practicable, to all, and we feel sure that when the students find themselves treated as men, they, on their part, will do nothing to disgrace that name...
...system of espionage, well calculated to arouse the opposition of the fellows, try to prevent any demonstrations. The result is a long and tedious delay to the inevitable celebrations. The proctors on one side and the fellows on the other, spend hour after hour in trying to outwit each other. Numbers in the end always prevail, and festivities commence at about 11 or 12 o'clock. The noise and disturbance continue till three o'clock, to the disgust and sleep-lessness of the townsmen...