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Word: superiority (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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RICHMOND STRAIGHT CUT No, 1 CIGARETTES.- Cigarette smokers who are willing to pay a little more than the price charged for the ordinary trade cigarettes will find THIS BRAND superior to all others. Beware of imitations, and observe that the firm name as below is on every packages. ALLEN and GINTER, manufacturers, Richmond, Virginia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notices. | 12/5/1887 | See Source »

...cheap copy of that of Life. In fact, the whole paper is apparently aiming to reproduce a Lampoonized edition of Life, its style of pictures, its jokes (?) and its clippings. Why the Lampoon, which was the father of Life, and in former days was conceded to be its superior in originality and wit, if not in the execution of its pictures, should now turn about and remodel itself after the pattern of its offspring is a puzzling question. It has been said that the changes made will induce a larger sale outside of college, and that the Lampoon's pecuniary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Lampoon. | 12/5/1887 | See Source »

RICHMOND STRAIGHT CUT NO, 1 CIGARETTES.- Cigarette smokers who are willing to pay a little more than the price charged for the ordinary trade cigarettes will find THIS BRAND superior to all others. Beware of imitations, and observe that the firm name as below is on every packages. ALLEN and GINTER, manufacturers, Richmond, Virginia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notices. | 12/3/1887 | See Source »

...which they engage, are confined to the representatives of these two leading universities. Many friends of these contests in both universities have been hoping for a time when such a result could be properly accomplished, without exposing one or the other college to the charge of escaping from a superior. Two years ago a race was lost at New London to Columbia. The defeat was retrieved last year. Since the old fifteen-men foot-ball was abandoned, in which Harvard had been fairly successful, and the adoption in 1882 of the present American game, Harvard, until the present season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: About College Athletics. | 12/2/1887 | See Source »

...closely contested, was a highly creditable display of the science of football, and was won by the superior and harmonious team play of Yale. Harvard played a rushing game almost entirely, while punting was a strong factor in Yale's play. The rush line work of Harvard was excellent and the interference and the halfback play, especially that of Sears, was exceptionally good, and at times brilliant.- Yale News...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/1/1887 | See Source »

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