Word: print
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...unregenerate reader's attention. Knowing that it is too much to expect the above desperate character to read anything so respectable as the original, I venture to give a few selected bits, very much as the members of the B. L. B. U. E. T. A. used to print the decalogue in gaudy colors on pocket-handkerchiefs and express them to the South Sea Islanders, utterly oblivious to the fact that the islanders aforesaid were unprovided with spring suits, and, consequently, with upper left outside breast-pockets. It is not in cruelty, not in wrath, that I cull from...
...print below the score of the Handicap Tourney in Billiards, in which Mr. E. W. Roby wins the first prize, and Mr. W. Mason the second...
...print the agreement between Harvard and Yale in regard to the Regatta at Springfield. The rules under which the race is to be rowed are substantially the same as those in force at Saratoga...
Brother poets, if you must write "Lines to a Harebell," or "On a Withered Daisy," do so by all means, but don't print them, unless you have more confidence in your genius than the world is likely to have; or at least do not build the lofty rhyme to describe your meditations...
...said that many of our wise and enlightened legislators, in Congress assembled, cherish in secret a belief that the government of the United States has only to print on a piece of paper the magic sentence, "This is a dollar," to make that hitherto useless paper as valuable a measure of value and medium of exchange as the standard dollar of coin. It is in something of the same spirit that successive classes in Harvard College have voted "that the office of chaplain shall be considered as of more importance than before," and by this vote men of character...