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Word: victim (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...liveliest matches of the Intercollegiate Tournament took place this morning. Hooker of Yale, met Thomson of Princeton; Thomson winning after a hard five set match. The two Harvard men, Whitman and Forbes, then met and Forbes won. Whitman was wearied by his recent hard work and fell an easy victim to Forbe's swift drives...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD WINS THE DOUBLES. | 10/8/1897 | See Source »

...better results in an instance like this. The actions of the Administrative Board often fail to punish to any great extent because they are carried on so quietly, and, in addition, a man who is disciplined in this way is always regarded-by a certain class as largely the victim of misfortune. It is thought that the proceedings, and, in fact, the very appointment of this committee of investigation, will be especially full of meaning in showing the real opposition of students toward such underhanded doings in general, and that if any one is shown to have any connection with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/3/1897 | See Source »

...concrete instance of the blood-thirstiness objected to is supplied by the following sentence quoted from the longest article, entitled "The Flagellants." "Every day thereafter, the victim's bloody back burned up in red hell-fire before the tormentor's wild eyes: divine threats of damnation echoed through the silence; amid the awful glare two gaunt figures writhed,- the one upon the floor, his eyes starting out in agony, the other in the air, his eyes swelling with glutted revenge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 5/12/1897 | See Source »

William H. Riddle, A. B. 1895 and A. M. 1896 died Jan. 23 at St. Paul, Minn., the victim of a collision between a train and an electric car which occurred last December...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: William Halderman Rlddle '95. | 2/2/1897 | See Source »

Grant immediately went on with his triumphs and Rosecrans, under him, won such successes at Iuka and Corinth, that he supersceded Buell. The latter had lost his position, a victim to misfortune and unjust treatment at the hands of Halleck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DR. FISKE'S LECTURE. | 12/14/1895 | See Source »

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