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Word: southeasterly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...WOULD RATHER SEND MY SON TO THE WORST COLLEGE IN THE SOUTHEAST, WHERE MY LEADING-STRING WHIMS ARE HUMORED, THAN TO THE BEST UNIVERSITY IN THE NORTHWEST, WHERE HE WOULD BE ALLOWED TO PLAY IN THE STREETS AFTER NINE O'CLOCK, AND BE TAUGHT THAT EVERYTHING DEPENDED UPON DOING HIS DUTY AND BEHAVING HIMSELF." - Dr. M'Bosh

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities | 5/16/1873 | See Source »

...main reading-room in which the smoker could indulge his propensities, - a room which no one need enter unless so disposed, and in which, therefore, no one could complain of the habits of others? For instance, would it be entirely impracticable to convert the small room on the southeast corner of Massachusetts into such a refuge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR READING-ROOM. | 1/24/1873 | See Source »

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