Word: rightly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...right for a man to do nothing...
...reports with no better results than we have as yet attained? Before we came to college it was different with us writers for the press, when, at our slightest hint of dissatisfaction innumerable mass meetings and investigating committees, and I don't know what all, used to arise to right the wrongs at which we so sternly pointed the finger of scorn. But now things seem to be altogether changed. These Harvard man are quite too incomprehensible. "Tis another exhibition of Harvard "indifference," I am sure. Our most scathing philippics seem to have no effect...
...entirely essential. There would be no real sweetness in life without it, and not one girl in 800 would ever fall in love if it were not for the mustache. It is just the nicest thing ever invented to fall in love with, and no young man in his right mind ever fails to take advantage of it. The mustache ought to be given plenty of room to grow, and let us hope the drought of the last summer has not retarded it.[Phila. Times...
...severe struggle is going on between the two horse railroads of Cambridge, the Union and Charles River. The Union road seems to think it has a right to the monopoly of the business...
...said Goe, breaking into a merry laugh. "Me and Bang, we went right by his hut; did n't we, Bang? And we heard somebody talking, and what do you think it was? We peeped through a crack, me and Bang did, and we saw Yung walking up and down, and saying something; and did n't he look funny! Did n't he, Bang? And when he got through he looked scared, and said, 'It's a pome, and I'm a pote!' and I'm sure I don't know what that means...