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Word: indians (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...boating men at Exeter walk twelve miles, and run three every week, in addition to their Indian-club and dumbbell exercises...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 3/12/1875 | See Source »

...Indian canoe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RIVER. | 3/12/1875 | See Source »

...Cloud Crew (Indian), of Red Cloud University, Ogallalla...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COLORED RACE. | 12/18/1874 | See Source »

Deafening cheers for Harvard greeted this achievement. Bets of two to one were offered that she would not come in last, when an unlooked-for circumstance took place which eventually gave the victory to our College. When three fourths of a mile from the stake-boat, the Indian crew, spurting, overhauled the Chinamen, and through the carelessness of Jim-Jam, the bow-oar of Ah Sin, the two boats fouled; the boats which were closely following these two crews, in endeavoring to avoid a collision with them, fouled each other, and in an incredibly short space of time the course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COLORED RACE. | 12/18/1874 | See Source »

Yale and Wesleyan followed the example set by their swarthy rival, while Vassar now led all three by half a mile. Suddenly Heap-swearing Fox, stroke of the Indian crew, drew a tomahawk from his belt, and with an appalling yell buried it in the brain of the unfortunate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COLORED RACE. | 12/18/1874 | See Source »

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