Word: worde
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...would the league sound? It might sound all right one way and then again it might not; for instance to a student from that cradle of athletics - the University of Pennsylvania - it might sound all right. There is melody in the name Pennsylvania; then, too, the derivation of the word is classic to a greater or less degree, and yet after all it seems as if a short one-syllabled name that we can think of supplies the place of Pennsylvania very well. Of course, if the Keystone State, including Philadelphia, should really want us at this late date...
...Lord. The beauty of holiness makes the plainest face look bright and happy; it makes the sick smile, and the old appear as if they had the crown of life. In old age a man's features are moulded by his character and the life he has led. The word holiness was originally wholeness, and without the latter idea joined to the conception of the modern word holiness, half its force is lost. Most men of the present day would rather be called sinners than saints, and what is needed now is spiritual minded men of the world. What purposes...
...hover round the group like vultures scenting slaughter from afar. The buzz of conversation in the ring is immediately hushed as the umpire calls Silentium, zur Mensur! and announces that two members of such and such Verbindungen will fight for 15 minutes. Then one of the seconds gives the word to cross swords; and as the two figures in the middle stand with right arms high in the air and swords crossed, the other second cries Los! and off they go. The strokes, coming entirely from the wrist, rain down so rapidly that it is almost impossible for an inexperienced...
...management of the freshman nine have received word from Williams that they will have no freshman nine this year as all their efforts are being exerted for the 'Varsity nine. - Yale News...
...paid, it will enable the management to procure very handsome cups which will serve as substantial memorials of the gallant acts of Eighty-nine. We trust that this last appeal may have its effect on the stony hearts of those sophomores whose signatures have not yet had the magic word "Paid" placed after them in the blue-book at Leavitt & Peirce...