Word: utterness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...little New Hampshire village, with the intention of wearing away the rest of the vacation there. It was one of those delightful little country places, where on the arrival of a stranger all local industries are for the time suspended until the entire community has informed itself to its utter satisfaction regarding the minutiae of said stranger's life, habits, religious belief, and matrimonial intentions. But they did n't get much out of me. I don't talk very much about myself. I'm not egotistical. I am fully convinced of this, for I've heard myself...
...frightened would but faintly express it. I was utterly unnerved. The impulse was to turn and fly. But a sense of shame held us still; we were two, and men; and besides, it was better to have the thing before our eyes than behind our backs. Ugh! I saw Jackson mechanically draw his revolver from his belt. I would have stopped him, but I could not : my hands and tongue were as if tied. He raised the pistol, aimed it with shaking hand, and fired. The smoke cleared away, and Jackson fell back on me, fainting. Oh, horrors! the bullet...
...make a point of sparing the feelings of our athletic representatives by charitably blinding ourselves to their obvious failings, so long must we expect to see those failings remain prevalent. A team may do hard and conscientious work all through the winter, and yet in the spring meet with utter and signal defeat; and in such a case, while we should give them full credit for the hard work they have done, we must not content ourselves with patting them on the back and calling them unfortunate victims of circumstances, but we must allow the possibility of their labor having...
...Senior Class elections will soon take place, and we wish to remind Seniors that a creditable Class Day is the result of an utter disregard of society lines in the elections for class officers. There is no fear now, as there was when '81 was the Freshman class, that Class Day will cease to be a College institution; that danger has passed away; but there is, unhappily, still extant a feeling that every one of the several sections into which each class is divided should have a due representation; even last year there was some dissatisfaction expressed over the "distribution...
...Utter confusion of Instructor FAGG...