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Word: shipped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...team yesterday afternoon should be a warning against the danger of over confidence, a danger to which the lacrosse men are particular liable, owing to their long continued success. Some time yet remains before the first college game, and yesterday's lesson should be profited by, if the champion ship is to remain here another year. The season has been against our team, and the disadvantage can only be overcome by harder or rather more careful work, for nobody can accuse the lacrosse men of not working hard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/3/1887 | See Source »

...night. The performance began at 8.30, with a chorus of gorgeous, though needy, noblemen, who explained to music from. "Fra Diavolo" that, having been crossed in love, ruined, and otherwise maltreated, had taken to piracy to retrieve their broken fortunes; that their captain, Stubbs, having insisted on taking a ship with ladies on board, they had put him in irons, and now fresh from a ship-wreck were in doubt what to do. A solo, rendered by Weaver as Stubbs, and a chorus tune, "The Bowery Grenadiers" deserve notice. The stage business was excellent. Exeunt omnes. A solo by Dorothy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "John Harvard" at Union Hall. | 4/2/1887 | See Source »

...need not fear for his success in life. A man's religious views enter into his daily work and determine, to a considerable degree, his character. Before all, a man must be true to God, and his earthly affairs will arrange themselves in order; just as a ship whose position is correct in regard to the sun, will assume a position correct as regards the stars, also...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Appleton Chapel. | 3/25/1887 | See Source »

...Capital Ship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Concert | 3/19/1887 | See Source »

...much as four hundred years ago it was a favorite game for sailors of the British navy to "lay houlde of an goode rope's twiste" and pull against an opposing party on the broad ship's deck, of a quiet afternoon. The number of contestants was practically unlimited, and the contest was not decided till one or the other of the opposing parties had been pulled entirely over a chalk-line on the deck. Of course, after a few heaves, if one side began heaving all together, as sailor's heave a rope, the other side was bound...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Tug-of-War. | 2/10/1887 | See Source »

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