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Word: plainly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with a small stick with which he is armed. The other players then run to look after the ball, and while this search is going on the party who struck it with the stick runs incessantly from post to post, marking one for each run. It is plain, then, that it is to the advantages of the party who strikes the ball to make it jump very far. Sometimes it tumbles into a thicket, and the players take hours before they can get hold of it; and all this time the player does not cease running from post to post...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PORTUGUESE IDEA OF CRICKET. | 2/11/1884 | See Source »

Cornell University gets a particularly fine Egyptian mummy from Mr. Pomeroy, American consul general at Cairo. It is something over 3500 years old, and the covering of pasteboard bears a host of figures and inscriptions which are yet plain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/6/1884 | See Source »

...Lost-A plain stylographic pen, on the way from North Avenue to University Hall, on Thursday afternoon. Please return to C. R. Saunders, 50 North Avenue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPECIAL NOTICES. | 2/1/1884 | See Source »

...those which are still content with more simple covers, the Princetonian and Trinity Tablet have plain black and white covers with ornamental heads and no advertisements in front, while some, like the Williams Argo and the Dartmouth, have simple colored covers with plain type. Even these are an improvement over the old styles. Of the dailies, both the Yale News and Cornell Era have ornamental headings. The HERALD-CRIMSON, being in a transition state as to its name must await the time with patience before it can again appear with an artistic capping. The Advocate although neat in its appearance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/30/1884 | See Source »

...Lost-A plain stylographic pen, on the way from North A venue to Unversity Hall, on Thursday afternoon. Please return to C. R. Saunders, 50 North Avenue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPECIAL NOTICES. | 1/30/1884 | See Source »

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