Word: worded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting was the tug-of-war between eighty-six and eighty-five. For this event the floor was, for a wonder, kept entirely clear, so that the spectators experienced no difficulty in watching the progress of the contest. The signal cord was operated by Mr. Sexton, '84, and the word was given by Mr. Morison, '83. Some time was consumed in getting a fair start, but when the word was finally given both teams came down with an even drop. By repeated heaves the ribbon was brought over to the '86 side, and at the end of the first minute...
...referring to your first article, I called it "inaccurate;" while, by your own admission, that adjective was not wholly inappropriate, I think, on the whole, I might better have used the word "misleading." When I used the word, I was thinking, not of the trivial blunder as to the cost of the "blazers," but to the rather broad and harsh clause in which it is said that the provision of such "luxuries" as "blazers," etc., "indicates a looseness in the handling of the crew money, which it would be well to investigate more closely." It may be true that such...
Interesting as it always is to catch a glimpse of the customs of another college, the interest is doubled-compounded, would be, perhaps, a better word-when the institution we are permitted to visit is, in every sense of the word, a sister college. It is only too true that the great body of the "men who are studying at Cambridge" are unacquainted, save by hearsay, with the mores that prevail at Wellesley, but we venture to make the assertion that this state of things would not endure for a moment if we could but be fortunate enough to receive...
...word "News" is not as many imagine, derived from the word "new," but from the initial letters of the cardinal points of the compass. It was a common practice in former years (between 1595 and 1730) to put over the periodical publications of the day, the initial letters of the cardinal points of the compass thus...
...implying that the papers contained intelligence from the four quarters of the globe; and from this practice is derived the word newspaper.-[Yale News...