Word: mushrooms
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...look upon this institution as a possible rival of our own University, but we can console ourselves with the thought that such an institution as Mr. Clark has conceived, is the result of years of development and growth; that such an institution cannot spring into existence like a mushroom, no matter how great a golden mine is available, nor how deep the purse of the founder. Mr. Clark is doubtless sincere in thinking that another institution of learning is necessary in the State, but we consider that Harvard, Yale and the rest of our eastern colleges are amply able...
...bore more resemblance to a bog than to a foot-ball ground. Along the base lines of the old diamond ran turbulent little rivers, continually replenished by the driving rain. On each side of the field were clusters of umbrellas that seemed to have sprung into existence like a mushroom crop...
...through the sand from the nearest base of supplies, some one had found a rich deposit of gold. At once miners, merchants, gamblers, and all the male and female floating population of the Nevada mining camps made a rush for the spot. In three months arose one of those mushroom mining towns, where every other house is a saloon, and every saloon has a faro bank; where "shooting scrapes" average five, and "hands up" twenty, a week, and the lowest wages paid are $5 a day. Of course, I went at once to Bodie...