Word: wente
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale graduate advisory committee, at a meeting at New Haven Saturday, decided not to agree with the appointment of a conference committee on matters in dispute between the Harvard and Yale University crews, until Harvard formally accepts Yale's challenge to race. The Yale crew went into training Saturday...
...spot. In three months arose one of those mushroom mining towns, where every other house is a saloon, and every saloon has a faro bank; where "shooting scrapes" average five, and "hands up" twenty, a week, and the lowest wages paid are $5 a day. Of course, I went at once to Bodie...
...catch the words; but the "pard" explained that they wished Elsie and me to go up together, as pulling us up was a good deal more work than letting us down. I objected to this. There was hardly room in the bucket for little Elsie alone. If we went up together we should have to sit opposite one another on the edge of the bucket with the rope between, like the two sides of a pair of scales; and I feared that Elsie might get cramped and frightened before we reached the top. Besides, I noticed that about six inches...
...went by the name of Patrick O'Reilly has confessed to being one of the participants in the murder of Lord Cavendish and Under-Secretary Burke, in Dublin last May. He is now in jail at Albion...
...cars just after the Yale-Harvard freshman foot-ball game. He was a Yale man. She, the cousin of a Harvard man. "Is this seat engaged, he said?" "No, sir!" she sweetly murmured, and he sat down. But that was as far as it went. He cast side-long glances, he hemmed, he coughed. In vain; the fair one heeded not but gently dozed. The people in the car smiled, he blushed, and - betook himself to the smoking car. - [Student...