Word: strait
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...conference committee has again met in New York with delegates present only from Harvard, Princeton, Wesleyan and Columbia, and after duly considering the hopeless situation of affairs has decided to leave the whole matter in statu quo, from which desperate strait each faculty is at liberty to rescue it as shall seem best...
...laughter and with tears, our brain still teeming with - no! we will not believe them the creatures of imagination. Dear Tom! sweet Ellen! brave, great-hearted John Breese! life seems nobler from contact with you - we cannot write soberly of it. Here in this sanctum of sobriety, here in strait-faced, solemn 'Book Notices' we propose three rousing cheers for Tom Hammersmith! Three cheers more for Mark Sibley Severance, chronicler! Yes, and three more for 'Fair Harvard!' 'May they live long and prosper!'" Well done, Rip Van Winkle...
Teacher: "Class in Geography, stand up. What is a strait?" Small boy (next to the foot): "A strait beats two pairs, three of a kind, and generally takes the pot-unless some fellow happens to have a cold deck slipped up his coat sleeve." Teacher: "Let us pray...
...more I did. Do you? And this was the way in which I discovered that the Ferocity knew nothing about any garment except a strait-jacket, which does n't fit many people...
Through the ways high-hedg'd and strait...