Word: senseless
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Nine, chafed by the severe criticism of senseless writers, and ridiculed by would-be authorities on base-ball matters, has proven itself capable of deeds surpassing all the former triumphs which Yale has gained on the ball-field." - Yale News, May 27, 1878. Amended June...
...wander far away to another hemisphere, and she murmurs softly, "Clarence, ever mine own." She sees not the forms of two masked figures creeping stealthily behind her. The next moment a stifled cry, the odor of chloroform, a feeble struggle, and a closed carriage rolls rapidly away, bearing the senseless form of the beautiful heiress. (To be continued in our next...
...stupid, old, senseless curmudgeon...
...classmen consider them beneath their notice. For the consolation of such modest men we would say that unless a man gives himself away by knocking at the door of U. 5, or by calling the instructor "professor," he is not looked upon as an inferior being by any except senseless Sophomores. We are all liable to be taken in, at least once in our lives, and the recipients of those bogus summonses, we are sure, will find sympathizers in the Senior class...
Orono preserves the pleasing custom of smoking the pipe of peace. After this ceremony was over the whole class of thirty-two shook hands. It was one of the most senseless performances the writer ever witnessed; the class standing in line and shaking hands with No. 1, No. 2, and so on in order until the end of the game; but it was a fitting close for such a remarkable Class...