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Word: spiculus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Chicago that the recent explosion in C - e H - e unearthed two new species, the "hard grind" and the "regular grind." Someone who reads this may call this a "grind," but it is not, it is not even a lie. The elder Pliny was a grind, and Vitellius Spiculus was a grind. But they had brains and it paid them to grind. It is even said that the elder Pliny wore glasses. There is an old legend which is to-day told in one of the Swiss villages among the Alps, to the effect that the great Julius stopped there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grinds. | 11/30/1885 | See Source »

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