Word: exploit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...candidates for the 'varsity nine practiced on Holmes Field yesterday afternoon, devoting their time to batting and fielding work. Probably no other team in the league can claim such an early opening of the season as that marked by yesterday's exploit...
...American youth enters college until he graduates he rarely gives the slightest evidence that he knows anything about humor. He learns the venerable practical jokes that have been handed down from one undergraduate generation to another. He never originates a new joke, but is content to repeat the stupid exploits of dull predecessors." Surely the Times man has overlooked the recent bench-greasing exploit at Dartmouth, or the illustrated supplement which the Yale News formerly indulged...
...Majesty Myself," in the Boston Post says "it was Mr. Boucicault who told Oscar Wilde how to treat the 'bold, bad men' of Harvard, who would fain have broke up the poet's lecture, and for which exploit Oscar has been so much applauded...
...dizzy height. As he touched the flag, which bore the numerals ' '86,' a cheer greeted him, and, as he tore it from its fastenings, the crowd of '85 men below shouted themselves hoarse. The flag was divided of course and the crowd dispersed through the rain. Today's exploit leaves it doubtful what '86 will do next-whether Trinity Church steeple or the summit of the Peabody Museum is to be honored with a piece of blue bunting...
...Western paper, recording the exploit of the bloodhound in an "Uncle Tom's Cabin" company, that lately broke his bonds and killed the donkey of the troupe, remarks that the dog was rather mean to pick out the best actor in the company...