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Word: spokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...President Hayes arose to respond he was loudly cheered, and when the applause had finally subsided he spoke as follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXTRACTS FROM SPEECHES AT THE ALUMNI DINNER. | 7/3/1877 | See Source »

...Prof. Brewer gave a very interesting lecture, last week, on the different celebrated trotting horses in this country. He began with Boston Blue, who trotted in the year 1818, and among others he spoke of the following celebrities in the horse line, comparing their respective times: American Roan, Topgallant, Burster, Edwin Forrest, Lady Suffolk, Tacony, Flora Temple, Dexter, American Girl, Goldsmith Maid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT OTHER COLLEGES. | 6/1/1877 | See Source »

...CHILD, in his lecture on Chaucer at the Lowell Institute last Wednesday evening, spoke of the author's "Troilus and Cressida" and of the "House of Fame." On next Saturday he will treat of the "Legend of Good Women...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 3/23/1877 | See Source »

SINCE we last spoke of the affairs of the Senior Class, continued efforts have been made to secure a definite settlement of the disputed points. The committee of graduates, to whom the matter was referred for advice, recommended a compromise which made it necessary, after the nature of compromises, for each one of the four factions to resign something that each had cherished. When the representatives who had met the committee laid the proposed compromise before the several bodies they represented, there arose questions of what was understood and what was implied, which left the exact result of the compromise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/23/1877 | See Source »

...wunt. He is apt to call law lor, America Americar, etc., evidently to atone for his almost universal slight to the r in the middle of a word. Roof, root, and room become roof, room, root, etc. The sound he gives to such words as boat, home, comb, throat, spoke, coat, poke, etc., is unlike anything I ever heard before, and has to be heard from the lips of a genuine up-country Yankee to be understood. Duty, tune, lucid, blue, etc., become dooty, toon, bloo, etc. Past, fast, last, etc., invariably parst, farst, larst, only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROVINCIALISMS AT HARVARD. | 3/23/1877 | See Source »

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