Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...summer, and at day-break in winter, there was doled out to each student a small can of unsettled coffee, a size of biscuit and a size of butter weighing generally about an ounce. Dinner was the staple meal and at this the student was regaled with a pound of meat. Two days in the week, Monday and Thursday, the meal was boiled, and in college language, these were known as boiling days. On the five remaining days the meat was roasted, and to them the nickname of roasting days was fastened. With the flesh went always two potatoes. When...
...days and base-ball. Freddie (who has never seen a catcher's mask before.) "Papa, would they take that man to the pound if he wasn't muzzled...
...Cooper Hall & Co., merchants and bankers, London, have failed with liabilities of pound...
...Pussey's death adds another to the vacant professorships at Oxford. The chair of Hebrew in itself has only a stipend of pound 40 a year, but it carries a canonry of Christ Church along with it, worth pound...
...their way at least to a competency. But how? For any part in business life, trade or manufactures, a college training is held to unfit a young man, whether with or without capital. He could not, with his diploma in hand, earned by years of hard study, sell a pound of nails or sugar intelligently. There is not a trade by which the most ignorant man makes his living in which be could now earn a dollar a week, without at least a short apprenticeship. If he wishes to become clergyman, lawyer or doctor, a regular course...