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Word: snubbing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...control in the matter, as she is wanted by all parties. When she submits to us a proposition for a dual league, it will be well enough to consider the matter. But to do so now surely puts us in an attitude undignified and cowardly, gives Princeton an undeserved snub, and secures for us her enmity and absolutely nothing else whatever. We seem to forget that so long as the Yale-Princeton game occurs in New York on Thanksgiving day, it will remain the great event of the year, the one that brings in most money to the athletic associations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 11/27/1889 | See Source »

...paintings, damask curtains, satin upholstery, and statuary that surround us. Here a suppressed sneer is heard and we at once move out into the corridor. We go to the library, a wilderness of black walnut shelves, glass doors, carved tables, Ouida's novels, and long haired grinds. We snub the library, but maintain silence when we are informed that "you can get in, even after four o'clock." Another corridor, a door; we enter, and the first object that meets our eye is a black, battered beaten, Brimless beaver with the magic legend upon it, H. '85, Below...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley College II. | 1/28/1885 | See Source »

...attempted (and had too well succeeded) in having her say as regards the contests with us; and we were pleased when we heard that one of her own men had vigorously put a veto upon such conduct. To make their small treatment of their victors all the smaller, their snub all the more snubbish, they ended up their meeting by tabling a motion not to row Columbia again. Columbia cannot let such noble condescension pass without due gratitude. If the outgrowth of the whole should be the end of the Harvard-Columbia race at a date which interferes with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 10/10/1882 | See Source »

...knocked down, and it were better for the young man that he were indeed deposited on the ground in a place where no man should come unto him. For lo, the maiden is what is called in the tongue of the Philistines, fresh, and loveth beyond all things to snub, which, translated, is sit upon the hopes of youthful genius. And verily, to the young man's questions she returneth answers which are as naught, and the young man runneth through his stock of conversation and no one will come to help him; and lo, to a saying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GO AND DO THOU NOT LIKEWISE. | 1/14/1881 | See Source »

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