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Word: withstood (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first number of volume thirteen of the "Lampoon" came out Friday. The present seems a fitting occasion upon which to extend congratulations to our sister journal. The "Lampoon" has had a hard task before it during the years of its existence, but has withstood all storms manfully, and now has a secure place among the college papers. We believe that the way in which "Lampy" shows his disapproval of certain acts on the part of our authorities is well adapted to the lessening of such acts, for the irony of the jester - whose person always is held sacred - does more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/21/1887 | See Source »

August 29: My pupills all came to me ys day to desire vy might ceas learning Hebrew; I withstood it with all ye reaso I could, yet all will not satisfy ym. Thus am I requited for my love; & thus little fruit of all my prayers bears for yr good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hebrew at Harvard. | 2/1/1887 | See Source »

...walks of life, and especially in the department of literature. He then humorously alluded to the future meeting in 1936 of the class of '86 over in some room in Weld, and spoke of those who would then be major-generals or privates, according as they had withstood or not the temptations of their life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Meeting of the H. T. A. L. | 10/13/1886 | See Source »

...editors of the Vassar Miscellany promise to come into an Inter-Collegiate Press Association if one be formed. Now, we are assured, no more hesitation will be felt by our esteemed contemporaries in joining in with the scheme. This inducement cannot be withstood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 11/28/1882 | See Source »

...luck," and "they played as good a game as we did." For my part, I could not see that their rushers did any thing but commit a series of brutal assaults upon our men, who are deserving of great credit for the plucky manner in which they withstood the unwarranted attacks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTER | 11/26/1880 | See Source »

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