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Word: tame (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...criminal pranks, those promising candidates for collegiate honors greased the rails of the nearest railroad, causing much annoyance to the authorities. The next thing we expect to hear of the young men is that they have taken to train wrecking for sport. Ordinary methods of amusement are becoming too tame, it seems, at Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/23/1882 | See Source »

...secret of the "curve system" is out. It is done with a thermometer, a metronome, a piece of string with knots in it, and a tame canary-bird...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 6/4/1880 | See Source »

...next event was the first bout of the Middle Weight Sparring, in which Messrs. C. Brigham '80, and S. Bullard, L.S. appeared. The contest was rather tame at first; but in the last part of the second and the third rounds, a number of good exchanges took place, in which neither seemed to have a very marked advantage. The bout was finally given to Brigham...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE H. A. A. MEETING. | 3/19/1880 | See Source »

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