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Word: use (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Princeton men fought hard and pluckily when the ball was placed, but it was of no use. The Harvard attack had the ball most of the time. After five of the remaining six minutes of the hour had passed. Hood and Blodgett rushed the ball in from one side and the latter shot successfully, making the third and last goal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse. | 5/22/1886 | See Source »

Resolved, That we, the students in mass-meeting assembled, do accept this trust in full appreciation of its meaning, and devote to use our influence to suppress disturbances of all kinds in the college yard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mass Meeting. | 5/21/1886 | See Source »

...stood the ordeal well. The proper place for pressure to stop the flow of blood, are the neck, behind the collar-bone, the inner side of the upper arm, the part over the hip bone, and the inside of the thigh. Hot and cold applications are also of use...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Richardson's Lecture. | 5/19/1886 | See Source »

...plays, the buildings being of yellowish marble, shaded and stained with age. Above the roofs of the houses rose the storied Acropolis. All the conventional rules were observed. Characters coming from the city entered on the left hand side. Those coming from other places entered at the right. The use of action as well as declamation, however, was a departure from ancient customs which made the play interesting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "The Acharnians." | 5/19/1886 | See Source »

...gymnasium at Williams has been opened for use...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 5/18/1886 | See Source »

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