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Word: shove (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...take hold of a player it's a foul. You can shoulder him and shove him over, but you must not touch him with your hands. And it's a foul, too, if the ball hits your arm below the elbow. The great point about the Association game is that it is not so rough as the Rugby. Of course you cannot play foot-ball without being a bit rough, but it is not nearly so bad as Rugby...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Game of Foot-Ball as Played in England. | 1/28/1888 | See Source »

...Indeed, the cries of "Record, is a cent," and "Buy the only reliable paper," which are levelled by the rival venders at the students passing into Memorial, and the crowding and jostling, almost make us fancy that we are in a railroad station. Sometimes the student actually has to shove his way through the crowd, while the boys are thrusting papers in his very face, as if he were escaping from a swarm of hackmen. Will not some one inform these irrepressible youngsters that there must be better order and less noise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/10/1887 | See Source »

...some respects. But it cannot develop without aggressive criticism, and the feeling in each student that he is in some degree responsible for the behavior of the community. This little matter of the good lame of the yard will be one way in which men can give their shove in the right direction, by not only passively but actively promoting celebrations of a handsome and orderly kind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Letter from Professor James Concerning Celebrations. | 6/8/1885 | See Source »

...sympathy. If you wish to be loved, you must have some one to love you; but here they all wish to be loved and have no time for loving, and consequently they are not so comfortable with one another as others who are sometimes, perhaps infrequently, willing to shove "self" into the background. My dear fellow, if you want to make friends, and make them rapidly, pursue the acquaintances you make this evening. Let them talk to you, sympathize with them, love them, or try to, and you will become the most popular man in the room. Ask the young...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAUSETTE DE LUNDI. | 5/1/1882 | See Source »

Because in its pages they hope to shove...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON BREAKFAST. | 2/6/1880 | See Source »

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