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Word: wente (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Luckily I had succeeded in getting another net, with which I went to my court, where I found the ground stuck full of small sticks which somebody else had driven into he ground, in a convenient place for tripping over them, to hold up their net. In the future I hope that whoever is at a loss for a net or a court will take somebody else's and leave mine alone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/13/1882 | See Source »

Quite a number of men went home to vote yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 11/6/1882 | See Source »

...Texas went Democratic by an over-whelming majority...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 11/6/1882 | See Source »

...little while since, says the Lewiston, Me., Journal, four bold, bad sophomores in a certain college in this State went into the room of a freshman whom they judged to be verdant. After the sophomores had got into the room the freshman asked what they wished. "Oh, we have come to put you through," was the reply. The freshman told them they had better not attempt anything, but they scornfully refused to listen to advice from a member of a lower class, and made a rush for the youth whom they took to be green. With a blow he laid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/4/1882 | See Source »

...seems to be the general belief among the upper classes that if at any time a body of freshmen - small or large - gather together they cannot behave like gentlemen. On the night in question these same forty freshmen went to the theatre for their own amusement, and with the intention of creating no disturbance. As they went with the intention of behaving like gentlemen, they cannot understand how they were conscious of any "wickedness" or "furtive glances" at a party of nine sophomores, or a total of thirteen college men, the only college men who were in the theatre beside...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN AT THE THEATRE. | 10/31/1882 | See Source »

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