Word: worded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...trying to play an accompaniment on a flute. You must see that he can't do both well. I am willing to stand the dance, but there are some things human nature will not bear. While I hardly think of it in this place, the old saying about "A word to the wise," etc., I do hope that you'll make the hateful thing quit. If you don't, I'll pack up every blessed thing I've got and go home. Yours, as ever...
...Word has been received from London by Richard K. Fox that Tug Wilson will start for America the latter part of this month to make the proposed match with John L. Sullivan, the champion pugilist, for the championship of the world. The stakes will be $2500 a side...
...undeniable tendency of our day is towards the gradual loosening of all the time-honored and traditional ties of college and class custom, and, using the word in the etymological sense, the gradual vulgarizing of all the old and peculiar institutions of college life. This year, indeed, has seemed to mark a reaction from this tendency. At hardly any period, almost, within the memory of college students has there been such an epidemic of college hazings and escapades of all sorts. This phenomenon seems inexplicable; but we regard it as nothing more than a reaction from the inevitable tendency...
Members of the Co-operative Society are requested to change the word "hardware," which appears on the list of articles to be bought at a discount, to "cutlery." The firm, opposite whose name it appears, do not deal in general hardware...
...writes, "for their resolution. No one honors more highly the good work done by them than my father. I must, however, ask you to remember that the 'common cup' has in all ages been employed as a sacred symbol of unity, and that my father has only used the word 'drink' in reference to this symbol. I much regret that it should have been otherwise understood...