Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...themselves for future usefulness, and the College has appreciated them according to their devotion to such an aim. But we see that this is not the purpose of the editor of the Register. He merely trades on the good name of "student" to put money into his own pocket. If, to acquire his education, he were forced to do this, there might be some excuse for thus prostituting the fair name of Harvard to mercenary ends...
...last, as, if there is anything that the head of the family abominates, it is after-theatre suppers and billiard-halls. As for the rest of the money, I don't know where it's gone. You don't suppose I go round with a little book in my pocket, and every time I treat a fellow to Vichy, put down 'Vichy (treat to Jack) 10 cts.' I am not so miserly as that...
...Conductor, this man has his hand in my pocket...
...Excuse me, miss," interposed the gentleman from Harvard, "but you have your hand in my pocket...
Investigation showed that, owing to the crowded car and her proximity to the tall student, she had in fact put her hand into the wrong pocket. The student was not arrested...