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...disproved by Albert Matthews, in Dialect; Notes, 11, 91-114. In the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries the so-called "colleges" merely dormitories, with the exception of Harvard Hall, which contained the one college commons, kitchen, buttery, and library. Even the aborigines, in the short-lived "Indian Colledge," ate in the commons, which perhaps explains why all but one died or ran away before graduation. That and all the other "colleges" were in law and fact, simply buildings of Harvard College. Very truly yours, S. E. Morison...
...years ago, the midnight taper burned late, often and with great regularity. Young John Wesley, though "gay and sprightly, with a turn for wit and humor," was imbued with a deep purpose, and to accomplish it he systematized his living, and his friends' living, most strictly. They slept, ate, studied and discussed their aims on a time schedule so business-like that it drew upon them the ridicule of their irresponsible fellow Lincolnians. "Bible Bigots," they were called, "The Holy Club," and, for their ordered habits, "Methodists...
...Dallas, Tex., last week, some 6,000 members of the American Medical Association met in annual convention, ate 4,000 pounds of barbecue young beef, attended eight scientific sections, elected Dr. Wendell Christopher Phillips, great aural surgeon of Manhattan, president...
...glass cases in a restaurant in Berlin were stretched two men, thin, weak, but happy. They, Otto Klein and Max Kramer, were enduring a fast. People around them ate beefsteak; Herr Klein and Herr Kramer sipped Vichy water. Patrons of the restaurant devoured schnitzel, wienerwurst; Herr Klein and Herr Kramer smoked cigarets. For 45 days this painful scene went on, greatly to the advantage of the restaurant. On the 45th day Herr Klein and Herr Kramer were lifted from their cages. They had beaten by a day the world's record fast of 44 days set by Herr Jolly...
...from de binnstuck was a kestle in wheech it leeved a hogre wot he ate opp pipple. So Jeck gave a knock on de door so it upperied de door de hogre's wife. So Jeck sad: 'Goot monnink, Meessus Hogre!!' So she sad: 'Who you??' So he sad: 'Hm-I'm from de Gezz Company-wot I should ridd de mitter. . . .' ". . . So it came in gredually de hogre wot he gave a sneef...