Word: withering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...indoor meeting of the Technology Athletic Club will take place at the gymnasium wither on the 13th or 20th of this month. The events will be as follows: Rumming high jump, standing high jump, running high kick, parallel bars, horizontal bars, fencing, fence baud, putting sling, Indian clubs, and middle, high and teacher weight sparring...
...chronic and irremediable disease that sees the world only through jaundiced eyes, and if a college produce this culture, it is unutterably a bad thing that you should found such a college and possess such a culture. If your college is to sap the vitality of men, to wither their brains by spring-forcing, to make them know so much that they avail nothing, to send forth graduates who are a perpetual sneer at their less learned betters, then let us have no colleges. But are we thus to slap civilization in the face, and because animals can run into...
...gone, and we are going all; Like flowers we wither, and like leaves we fall...
Poor flower, that wither'd at the feverous touch...
When pale November's wither'd leaf...