Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...This report conflicts to some extent with one which has just reached here, viz., that instead of shipping Boylston to Russia it is to be painted red, white, and blue, and put up at the World's Fair, in which General Grant is to receive his callers and presents. The latest despatch comes from New York, saying that O'Beery has offered to give away a debt of $2,000, incurred at the last walking-match, to any man who can smooth off the blocks of Boylston in 365 consecutive days. Two men have entered, the Chinese professor and Connors...
...gentle rap. His door opens slowly, and an ear-trumpet is thrust in. Attached to the little end is a proctor (proctors always come out at the "little end of the horn"). He said, "Too much noise - your name, Mr. Persimmons, please - report - Dean - to-morrow...
After we had retired for the night to our respective rooms, the thought occurred to me that I would attempt to find out whether the report that Tennyson is guilty of - of snoring were true or not. So I crept softly from the room, - I think it was only the second-best chamber; however, I forgive them that, - I crept, I say, down the long corridor to the door of the apartment where the great man lay. I applied my ear to the key-hole. All was still; "not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse," as the poet...
...have received the Annual Report of the Columbia Law School for 1880-81. The school contains in its two classes 456 students. It has grown from graduating...
...turned to a wight next him and inquired, "Why do they peer at us so carefully?" "They are afraid that we may spring a crib upon them," replied the lad; but ere Lighthead could go farther in his quest of knowledge, one of the watchers did approach, and said, "Report yourself at the office this afternoon...