Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...made by Professor Wolcott Gibbs, of our University, and is known as the Ammonic Nitrate Battery. This is the second improved species of battery that Professor Gibbs has invented, the first being the Bichromate Potash Battery, which has already taken the place of the old Bunsen Battery on the Western Union Telegraph lines. These batteries are in form like the Bunsen Battery; the Bichromate Battery, though improving little on the Bunsen in cleanness, yet gets rid of the fumes which make the latter battery so disagreeable for use. The Ammonic Nitrate Battery gives forth no fumes, and is perfectly clean...
...Western enthusiast would liken our temporary passivity to the falcon's poise in the air before his unerring swoop; a Harvard indifferentist rejects - the simile...
...poem in the same paper is pleasing as indicating the spread of civilization in Western Massachusetts. It is a drinking-song, beginning
...from above, is particularly noticeable. For the last few years the tone of American college feeling on this matter has been very healthy, and it is not agreeable to perceive, in the organ of a New England college, indications of a change for the worse. In a brand-new Western institution, where boorish boys and silly school-girls are huddled together, very much as their copper-colored predecessors used to be huddled in their wigwams, such a thing might be pardonable. But in a college as old, as honored, and as Eastern as Bowdoin, the sense of the dignity...
...most remarkable etymological compounds that we have ever noticed is "spellizootic," a favorite title for spelling-matches in many of our Western exchanges...