Word: tall
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Come Juniors swell and Seniors tall...
...this way it is hoped that everybody will be satisfied. I forgot to state that the price of the regulation suits is fixed at sixty dollars for the largest, fifty-five for the next, and so on. It has been suggested that a tall man who wishes to economize can do so by wearing the smallest suit...
...YOUNG lady, on entering a crowded horse-car, observed the sign, "Beware of Pickpockets!" She made her way to the middle of the car, and stopped beside a tall, fine-looking Harvard student, whose head towered up so high that it was unnoticed by the maiden. Her thoughts, indeed, were running upon pickpockets; and the probability that even she might be robbed of her small sum and the locket that contained the picture of her lover led her to thrust her hand hastily into her pocket to secure her purse. Horror! she finds a hand already there. Surely...
Investigation showed that, owing to the crowded car and her proximity to the tall student, she had in fact put her hand into the wrong pocket. The student was not arrested...
...tall clock * too, is confiscate...