Word: winked
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...back and to explain the cause of his absence. These rules have caused much unfavorable comment among the students, but this comment seems immature. The length of vacations is fixed, not by the faculty, but by the board of overseers. The faculty, therefore, have no right to wink at extensions of the recesses on the part of the students. At the meeting of the faculty, December 18, after listening to the report of a committee appointed specially to investigate this question, the matter of protracted vacations was discussed, and it was unanimously agreed that the length of recesses, as settled...
...amateur definition is strict, and there is a disposition both in England and America to wink less at the evasion of the rule. Very few of the socalled amateur oarsmen who are prominent can put their hands upon their breasts and testify that this clause does not apply to them: "Whose membership of any rowing or other athletic club was bot brought about, or does not continue, because of any mutual agreement or understanding, expressed or implied, whereby his becoming or continuing a member of such club would be of any pecuniary benefit to him whatever, direct or indirect." When...
They are taking photographs in Paris that actually wink. This leads to the hope that they will eventually produce them in such a manner that they will go out in an emergency and borrow five dollars...
...restaurant than what would be deemed quite fourth-rate in New York. Moreover, the poor food induces, in the words of Cambridge's poet, "restless, unsatisfied longing," which is too apt to be satisfied at the numerous drug stores, at which mysterious and exhilarating medicines are obtained at the wink of the initiated...
...professor won't wink...