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Word: neighbors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...take out her provisions Hallgertha sends a servant to steal from a neighbor, and when questioned by her husband replies it is not for men to concern themselves about the cooking. Gunnar strikes her and she says she'll not forget the blow. Gunnar is warned not to kill twice in the same lineage, but his cousin Mord treacherously causes him to kill the son of a father whom he has already killed. Gunnar is outlawed and refusing to leave Iceland is killed. His wife remembering the blow on the cheek refuses to help him. Kolskegg became captain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Njal's Saga. | 12/4/1891 | See Source »

...blocking of useful rules by smaller colleges, the retention of the 'assisted athlete' system, the vile wrangles in the public press, and jockey tricks of every description;"-and all for "the artificial and empty name" of championships. What Harvard wishes now is to play her "nearest neighbor and first rival," whether the arrangement "be called a 'league...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Monthly. | 4/16/1890 | See Source »

...wish to add an emphatic protest against college "sponges." Doubtless there are occasional times when earnest men do not, for a sufficient reason, bring their text books to a recitation or lecture; in which case it is entirely proper to ask the opportunity to look on with a neighbor in class, or glance over his lecture notes at a later time. But when a man systematically fails to bring his text-book to the class room, or cuts one lecture out of every three, and then depends upon some generous class-mate to come to his relief, he becomes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 3/26/1890 | See Source »

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