Word: pour
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Notices in the CRIMSON reaches stupendous proportions about the time of the examination period, as we have seen in the issues of the past week or so. What mines of wealth, in the form of many bits and shekels, must just roll into the CRIMSON'S treasury ! Tutors' notices pour in day after day, until it would seem that there was not a course in college that was not represented. What does it all signify? Does it really pay the tutors to advertise? Were I interested in the CRIMSON, I should certainly say that it paid-paid the CRIMSON. Still...
...discussion, and by betting at long odds. A proposal was made by some maidenly member of the Vassar Central Republican Campaign Committee that, on the day before the election, polls should be opened, and a special election of their own should be held; a small election, one petite election pour un sou as it were, but still one that would give the college an opportunity to show the great outside world just where it stood on the momentous question...
...company. They wear a pretty uniform, with feathers in their hats and flowing sashes of pink ribbon. They have provided themselves with neatly japanned water pots instead of a fire engine, and they have resolved when a fire breaks out to form a circle round about it, and to pour water on it from their watering pots while singing that beautiful song, "Water, bright water, for me, but gin for the masculine fire ladies:" They have signed a pledge never to go up a step ladder in public, no matter how confident any one of their number...
...scene of the contest. Nearly every coach in the city was out on this occasion, and as one after the other swept by, covered with enthusiastic supporters of the crimson or the blue, the effect was a most enlivening one. At 1,30 the crowds began to pour into the numerous entrances of the grounds in such great numbers that the ticket-takers were at their wits end to keep the throng in line. The steady stream was uninterrupted, until nearly through the first three-quarters, though just before play was called, a glance about the field seemed to reveal...
...different arts and professions. The professors of these different branches of knowledge, when renowned, are known as savants, are generally members of the Academie de Paris, and amuse themselves by appearing two or three times a week at the College de France or Sorbonne, where they pour forth masses of diverse knowledge to a most strange and motley mixture of mankind - of all nationalities - ranging from fifteen to eighty years of age. At the hour appointed for his lecture, the professor, generally attired in full dress, makes his appearance through a special door at the back, seats himself, mixes...