Word: shrug
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...list embracing a large proportion of the class, - it will rouse as much excitement as the list of Bachelors of Arts. Our Harvard honours will become much like those of a certain college, one of whose alumni, on being asked if he graduated with honours, said with a shrug, "O yes; half my class...
...such petty thefts occur only occasionally, the members will endure them with a patient shrug; but if, on the other hand, two or three men persist in habitual thieving, they ought, when detected, to be summarily ejected from the Reading-Room and thereafter deprived of its privileges...