Word: worsted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Clark, '83, won the college championship in lawn tennis Wednesday by beating R. D. Sears, '83, three straight sets. They played on the Longwood grounds, only a few witnessing the games. Mr. Sears, who holds the championship of the United States, played his worst, and by the third set was thoroughly rattled. Clark, on the other hand, played an almost faultless game. None of the sets were "love" sets. Score...
...students that our freshmen so easily defeated their Harvard opponents on the Harlem last July. From the supreme indifference and inexcusable laziness of '85 we had come to regard that class as on a par with our lamented '82, which has been put down by many as the worst class Columbia has ever...
...condition); besides he is wretched homely, and smokes cigarettes, which you know is not at all comme il faut, and I don't see how you ever came to make a Yale graduate a proctor. His room, of course, is right above mine, and the worst of it is that he is trying to learn the new waltz. You giddy devotees of Terpsichore of course know what that is, and so you'll pardon me if I don't go into details. Anyway, he is just learning it, and he does raise the most tremendous racket - "racket...
Intense excitement prevails in London over the news of the assassination of Lord Cavendish and of Burke in Dublin Saturday. The deed meets with expressions of universal horror and condemnation throughout this country, and is considered the worst blow to the fortunes of Ireland that could have been given. The Land League has published a manifesto deploring the occurrence as fatal to Ireland's hopes. Four men have been arrested on suspicion...
...looking at me just as hard as ever she could) that it was the "freshest" thing she ever heard of. But I must tell you what the Miscellany said, because I know that it will never be sent to you again, and so I will quote some of the worst things. Oh, dear HERALD! I did not for a moment think that I was writing anything naughty, or even objectionable, and to tell the honest truth, although I do think that I deserve some blame, I can't to this day see anything in the letter that is so very...