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Word: prop (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this little matter of spirituous imbibition, you must concede that the New Haven students are infinitely worse than we are. W(h)y, a-l-e is the very name their college goes by wherever it is known; and porter is the fountain of their life, their stay, their prop, their patron deity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE YALE GIRL. | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

...ETIQUETTE" writes to us to inquire if. in our opinion, it would be proper for him to support a young lady, if she were taken with a faint, even if he had not been introduced. Proper, young man! Certainly, prop-her by all means. - Cleveland Herald...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 5/19/1881 | See Source »

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