Search Details

Word: ately (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...nothing, they finally resorted to force and sabotage. Since they had not enough bread, they hurled what they had; since dishes were bare, they broke them. Finally they raised their Jolly Roger, a sign on which a skull and bones had been drawn with the epitaph underneath: "This man ate at Commons." While one must make liberal allowance for mob contagion and the human weakness for kicking, yet when five hundred students join their voices in the chorus of woe there must be something to cause the ferment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMPULSO BY SOUP | 3/14/1923 | See Source »

...Before you I stand, a student, starving while attending school. Hunger forced me to pick from garbage cans hends of herring. Not satisfied, I ate hay which I stole from a cow. This produced terrible head aches. Next I chewed small pieces of paper to satiate the gnawing pangs of Hunger. My stomach and teeth ached, and the muscles of my jaw grew tired...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMERICA CHALLENGED BY CONDITIONS IN NEAR EAST | 12/21/1922 | See Source »

...mention it. I never really wanted it anyway." By keeping his head in this particular case, he remains on the right side of everybody, for even the waitresses sympathize in his bereavement. It is needless to describe now he ate the shredded wheat on the cob, or the steak, or the jellied egg, or the dessert of pie a la mode, sauce oyster. If one merely understands and imitates the epicurean spirit in ordering, and the knack of turning apt phrases, then one can rest assured oft success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "TO THE MANOR BORN" | 10/28/1922 | See Source »

...their opponents, pulled rapidly ahead and beyond the half-mile mark had half a length's advantage. Brown kept the stroke up to 34 and at the Harvard Bridge open water showed between the two shells, but once under the arch the Junior boat put on a spurt which ate up half a length of their rivals' lead and gave it what looked like an equal chance for victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUNIOR EIGHT AGAIN OUT-DISTANCES CREWS A IN BRUSH ON CHARLES | 6/5/1922 | See Source »

...long interval of silence has been due to important discoveries which our excavators have made near the site of Inca University, but which it has taken time to correlate and interpret. The result is an enlightening account of the refectories and outside caravansaries where the students ate their meals. Unbelievable as it may seem, it is an established fact of physiology that a man's mental capacity is vitally affected by his diet. From a survey of the restaurants, dining-halls, and food-shops in the vicinity, even in their present ruined condition, we can glean some significant facts about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 5/17/1922 | See Source »

First | Previous | 747 | 748 | 749 | 750 | 751 | 752 | 753 | 754 | 755 | 756 | 757 | 758 | 759 | 760 | 761 | 762 | 763 | 764 | 765 | 766 | Next | Last