Word: asphyxia
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...disgrace. But family pride often betrays men into the most arrant absurdities. And I am not sure that Harvard pride is not at this moment tending to put a great many Harvard men in a position like that of the silly old Spanish king who preferred to die of asphyxia rather than sacrifice his dignity by moving away from the stove...