Word: plank
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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With the first snow of the season the plank walks have promptly appeared in the yard...
...Fayer-weather street and across the Lowell place to the marshes; after visiting all the ice-houses and barns in the neighborhood, they ran across into Brighton, through the marshes on that side of the river, and finally swam the river above the Brighton abattoir. The hounds used a plank in crossing the river, but lost some time at that place. The hares left their bags in the marsh, where they were finally found by the hounds. The finish in front of Matthews was reached by the hares thirty-one minutes in advance of the first hound. Root...
...There is no hint that the Greeks or Romans were prevented by any John Roach of their day from purchasing their ships wherever they wished. During the Middle Ages the tariffs were levied on a sliding scale, i. e., the captain of a vessel was obliged to walk the plank. Charles V. was an inventive genius; he invented the slave trade and protective tariff. Protectionists want such a tariff that a man can get over the fence with a bag of wheat but can bring nothing back. England was the first to take up and (be it said...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: There is one shocking thing connected with the management of this university that I have long noticed, and which I must at last speak out about. Above all the cries for plank side-walks and for better ventilation, this one calls loudly for redress. That men have been patient of it so long shows how long-suffering, how unindependent the college student is. I refer, sir, to the glaring evil - yea, insult - to every Harvard man of having the covers of all blank books for examination purposes colored blue. Blue, sir, the color of our rivals...
Trite as the subject may be, we would again call the attention of the authorities to the necessity of having more plank walks in the yard. The expense of providing these would be more than balanced by the pleasure of being able to cross the yard dry shod...