Word: worded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Italian named Scuri in Milan after having mastered the tetracycle, tricycle, and bicycle, now gives exhibitions of wonderful riding on the icycle. (Monocycle perhaps is the better word...
They had reached the well-known paragraph where OEdipus exclaims: "O city, city!" and an unprepared junior was called up. In the emergency he replied: "Here we have an example of a word in English taken almost without change from the Greek. OEdipus being in desperate circumstances called loudly, "Police! Police!" The professor fainted and his condition is still critical. - [College Cabinet...
...college aint what it used to be when my friend Edward Everett was there. I sent in my application for professor of chonology - keep the clock in order, you know - and they never noticed it. When they tried to get Max Miller, and couldn't, I sent 'em word I'd take his place, and they wouldn't have me. Oh, I tell you, the place's run down. Why, I used to pass around my hat among the boys after I'd got through lecturin', and get two or three dollars, and now! well, I'm glad...
...doubting Thomas' on that item of circulation." That a few misstatements should occasionally be made in the columns of every college paper is not to be wondered at; but notwithstanding this, the News has no excuse whatever for the publication of a statement like the above. Not one single word concerning our circulation has ever been made in the columns of the HERALD, and to claim a circulation of 5000 would, indeed, be preposterous. A statement has also been made that the HERALD has a circulation of 2000, which of course is equally false. We can say, however, with truth...
...Lewis Morrison, as Creon, fulfilled the utmost expectations of his most ardent admirers. He showed himself throughout an experienced actor in every word and every motion, portraying his character with better effect than any of the others, excepting, perhaps, Mr. Riddle. The selection of Mr. J. J. Hayes to play the part of the aged and blind priest of Zeus, was probably as good a one as could have been made, as his voice and manner were exactly suited to such a character. Later in the play, however, as the Shepherd, he showed some room for improvement. His utterances were...