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Word: cutter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Lightweight, retired in quick succession, and all eyes were turned on Blister, who, with swelling chest, wielded the ponderous ash. Cunners swore it was as exciting as the time he sold the little dog to Mrs. G. Our hero, having soared the air in vain once, knocked a daisy-cutter to C. F., and reached first in safety; Bones rung in a two-baser; Cunners stole his base on three strikes; and Oranges, with a three-baser, brought all his "friends" home. Here the Harvards' success ended; the Borsair failed to make anything, (mirabile dictu!), and the score stood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MATCH OF THE SEASON. | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

...indebted for the following facts to the investigations of Drs. Bradford and Cutter: Of 113 Harvard students who had rowed in intercollegiate races up to 1870, 10 were killed in the war, and 2 died of diseases contracted in the service. Of the remaining 101, 1 died of Bright's disease, 5 of consumption, 1 of neuralgia, 1 by suicide, 2 by accident, and 1 from an unknown cause. Of the 87 who were living two years ago, 67 reported themselves in good health, and from the rest no definite answer could be obtained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 6/13/1879 | See Source »

...spring the most determined cutter has to go to prayers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN THE SPRING. | 5/2/1879 | See Source »

...Dandy Lyons supplies me with these yellows and browns, which are so much like your own, and Peter Martin is my cutter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FRESHMAN AND THE FLOWER. | 5/31/1878 | See Source »

...difficulty of such an undertaking becomes apparent when we remember that the articles in the first seventy-seven volumes were published anonymously, and that it was owing entirely to the diligence of Mr. Cutter, Mr. Sibley, and Mr. Bowen, that the volumes in our Library alone contain a list of the writers who appeared in the early pages of the Review...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN INDEX TO THE "NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW." | 1/11/1878 | See Source »

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