Word: boomerang
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that the subjects which are now put down in the school curriculum as essentials, are, in fact, luxuries. And no less an authority than the London Athenaeum declares that compulsory Greek in the schools is doomed. The argument from the English school system, therefore, is likely to prove a boomerang in the hands of the classicists...
...becoming very evident that the recent brilliant boycotting and bulldozing expedition of a certain Cambridge tradesman undertaken against the students of Harvard, as represented by the Co-operative Society, has become metamorphosed into a very troublesome boomerang. The Co-operative Society could not wish for better fortune than to be thus assailed. It has now become a matter of honor with every Harvard student to lend the society his heartiest support in opposition to this foolish attack upon its interests and their own. The Co-operative Society may be only an experiment, but as such the students of Harvard...
Down at Durango last week one of the miners on the night shift, in an unguarded moment, kicked the mud off his feet against a can of giant powder, and the coroner had to go after him with a requisition from the governor and a crumb brush. - [Boomerang...