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Word: plated (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...fact, and the requirement that the case shall be made of chestnut to match the wood-trimmings in the hall, make it necessary to order a new one. A case nine feet long, six feet high, background of black cotton velvet, wire rests for the balls, sliding doors of plate glass, and the inscription carved in the top, will cost $175, - with common glass in the doors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A BASE-BALL CASE. | 11/23/1877 | See Source »

...lettered with the name of the defeated club, score and date. The balls will cost $25, the painting, etc, of the balls now on hand and the number above mentioned, one hundred and thirty-three all together, will cost $20. These amounts and the cost of the case with plate-glass doors is $220; with common glass in the doors, $35 less...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A BASE-BALL CASE. | 11/23/1877 | See Source »

...Princeton man pays for an engraved plate and fifty cards, two dollars, of which seventy cents, through the liberality of the engraver, goes to the India missions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT OTHER COLLEGES. | 1/12/1877 | See Source »

...found him very agreeable. But he has since developed a propensity for quietly laying hands upon the best tarts in every dish. He will lounge up to the table, join in a friendly conversation with somebody or other, and, in an absent sort of way, will slip into his plate tart after tart that I am vainly endeavoring to get at (I may remark, parenthetically, that I am physically small and weak), yet the man is so perfectly pleasant about it that in the present state of affairs I cannot publicly proclaim my disgust at his behavior...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OSTRACISM AND OTHER THINGS. | 6/16/1876 | See Source »

...well known that the Forest and Stream has offered a valuable piece of plate as a prize for an intercollegiate rifle-match. From the columns of that journal we learn that many colleges have taken hold of the subject energetically, and their rifle-clubs are looking around among their graduates for suitable men to coach them. Columbia claims Colonel Gildersleeve, and Williams will probably call on Mr. Orange Judd. The Forest and Stream also offers "to a college rifle-club, a member of which will furnish us with the best appropriate design for a vase or shield, a gold badge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/28/1876 | See Source »

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