Word: yers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...taken at once to do away with the present abominable "shack" system. It is as much as one's life is worth to try to escape from the army of small fiends who besiege the expectant tennis-player with cries of "Shack, mister," or "Say, mister, I'll shack yer fur fi' cents." Indeed, it it almost impossible to play on crowded Jarvis without "shacks" to watch the balls. It is admitted by one and all that this system is a very obnoxious one. It would be quite possible to erect at the back of some courts stop-nets, which...
...mucker (meeting '89's crew coming up North Avenue) "There's the Harvards!" 2d mucker, "yer lying. I tell ye, they's the Knights of Labor...
...American Universities. What has shown itself else where in peculiar dress and in strangely distorted pronunciation, has moved the students at Johns Hopkins to change their debating society into a "Students' House of Commons." Surely this gives evidence that Anglomania has gone quite far enough. The "it's English, yer knaw" is a very bad principle to have established in any degree among American students, and the slightest tendencies towards this fearful Anglomania should be nipped at once. Such a mania, among college men in particular, is likely to do no end of evil, tending to destroy all national individuality...
Greek Readings. Melea of Euripides, first half. Professor I'yer. Sever...
...jest as any xise woman'd have did. It kept me and me five chillers a hull week, sor. The nixt day afther that, sor, I got promotion. That's all, sor, and it's very welcome that yer...