Word: slanging
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...East and the numerous ones of the West the same thing has been repeated over and over again. Given, a marriageable professor in the faculty and one, or several, or many pretty and charming "co-eds"-as the young women in those institutions are termed in the college slang of their student-brethren-and no matter how much they are on learning bent, nor how many "missions" their zealous souls have decided to take up, there is sure to be a wedding. It is a fate as inevitable as to-morrow, and the marriageable professor-to say nothing...
Most of the "co-eds," as they are called in student slang, live in Sage College, which is the most attractive building, from an architectural point of view, on the campus, with the possible exception of the new Physical Laboratory. It is finely located on the hill, commanding a view of the town and lake; indeed, from the upper stories of Sage, the eye can take in the country for miles up and down the valley. In the summer, when the hillsides are covered with verdure, and the sun, just dropping behind the western hill, lights up the valley with...
...they keep shops or supervise building yards or manage ranches in Colorado, always try for the biggest things, and see far better than merely experienced men to what their work may lead, and what is the most reasonably probable road to success. Moreover, argue these men, descending into slang, the graduates afloat in the hard work of life "do not go muckers" in anything like the same proportion; do not, when they fail, go under so hopelessly, or take to drink or disreputable courses so often. They are supposed to do so, because when they do they are marked...
Pointless doggerel, misused slang...
...latest London slang is choc, meaning the reverse of chic...