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Word: pshaw (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...made a record for itself last spring which deserves substantial recognition, inasmuch as it won every game of the spring series. It has unfortunately become the custom here at Harvard for men rather to look down upon this excellent sport and to say with a would-be-knowing air, "Pshaw, the cricket eleven never does anything!" Even were this assertion true-which it is not-whose fault is it? We would like to put the question, "What has ever been done among the students at large to encourage or help those who are trying to introduce the game of cricket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/14/1887 | See Source »

Some of the freshmen have started the unpleasant trick of applauding class mates who come in late in the rhetoric lectures. -DAILY CRIMSON. -Pshaw! We've been doing that this long time. -[Brunohian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/21/1885 | See Source »

...pshaw! to think that Maud, who's truly sweet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAMBRIDGE SOCIETY. | 5/7/1880 | See Source »

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