Word: stumping
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...third, N. H. 6, contained a large collection of vegetables, especially some beets of mammoth size. Phil 5 contained a living crocodile, and was connected with F. A. 2, in which was a gorgeous panorama of Egypt and the Holy Land. Sanskt seems to have been an exhibition of stump-pullers, and Hebr undoubtedly was a jackass race. These are only a small part of the amusements, but the nature of the rest cannot be definitely ascertained...
...part of his aim was to show that there was little toadyism in college was, as he thinks, intentionally wrong. We are glad that such was not his aim, and willingly withdraw our inference. The secret of how to refute our main proposition lies neither in personalities of the stump-speech sort, nor in a noise about trivial errors...
...When we got to the pond I felt rather tired, so I said to her, 'You know a great deal more about finding these flowers than I do, Ethel, and I'll only be in your way, so, if you've no objection, I'll just sit on this stump and take a cigarette...
...point out what I am pleased to call lack of gush among the undergraduates, but he certainly has all the merit attaching to the discovery of the causal relation of these two facts. In regard to the value of the discovery, I may perhaps be pardoned in quoting the stump orator who said that if the cause named had an infectious disease the effect would not catch it. If the writer would allow that the phrase "lack of gush" covered the whole ground, I would freely maintain that the Nation, as well as all other vigorous writing of a practical...
...stood in the doorway for a moment, looking about the room; then he took his cigar out of his mouth and spat upon the floor; then, having replaced the stump, he staggered down the whole length of the table, and lurched into a chair at the other end of the room; and then, at last, he saw fit to take off his hat, which he threw to a table near him. Having taken his seat, he stared at the company for a while, expectorated a second time, and finally, calling the waiter, remarked "Brandy!" in a voice whose twang rivalled...