Word: words
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Yale Union has sent word that it will entertain all Harvard men who attend...
...time set for the race the rain had stopped and there was scarcely any wind. The word was given as soon as the crews reached their stations. There was some splashing at the start by all except the freshmen...
...since nothing is gained by this condition of affairs, it is unquestionably owed to spectators that they should not be afflicted with the vexatious delay which is caused by it. A mutual agreement seems to us the needed remedy. Let the four captains give their word of honor to each other that, barring unavoidable accidents, each will have his crew ready at the areed time. Then students will have confidence that the race will, if possible, be rowed as announced...
chowder probably came to us from the island of Jersey through our Marblehead fishermen-corrupted from the French chaudiere, while our intercourse with the Dutch settlers of the New Netherlands is recorded in the phrase span of horses. From the Germans we got the word loaf and loafer. From the Spanish Mexicans vamose. Such examples might be multiplied without number...
...ordinary metals were balanced one against the other, and the perfection of form and the nice gradations of thickness that wrought the miracle. And it is precisely so with the language of poetry. The instinct of the poet will tell him whether to use a Latin or an English word, and then, unless the form be all that art require or the most sensitive taste finds entire satisfaction in, he will have failed to make a poem that shall vibrate in all its parts with a silvery unison...