Word: younger
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...little plan, and I want to tell you all about it. I see poor little things wandering about with lots of books under their arms and a very dazed and unhappy expression of countenance. They tell me they are called sub-Freshmen, - things just like Freshmen, only younger and smaller, and trying very hard to be really Freshmen, just like a tadpole tries to be a frog. They have to learn all sorts of things, - Ethics and Dentistry and Agriculchar, and another kind of culchar that they learn in the pretty building with the bell. Among other things, they have...
...hardly know," said Digger. "I may be the younger Pliny; at any rate I'm a Junior...
...trousers. The ingenious youth's intention is to increase his pile, if possible, at the expense of the hereditary Prince of Monaco. Is the dear boy inclined to be extravagant? Oh, dear, no! it is merely that he may select appropriate trifles for his maiden aunts and his five younger sisters...
...crew in that race. In 1871 the Atlanta six defeated the Yale Sophomores by only nine seconds, and five days afterwards defeated the University crew of Harvard by sixty-three seconds. These were all three-mile races, and it may be assumed that, in trials of half that distance, younger oarsmen are relatively at less disadvantage...
...once approached, stretching out my arms to assure her of my protection, and at the same time threw her my handkerchief, when, retreating, she opened a small window, and with a piercing cry of Phfessahouwhyte, was received by a younger Mollah within. I caught a glimpse of interior apartments, where the moon-faced houris of the Dhin's household reside, and, Allah al Akbar! Mahomet himself has not many such. By this time the Dhin appeared, and threatened that my connection with the body of Mollahs should cease if I did not immediately withdraw, but Alla Pajama, - God is Great...