Word: dispatch
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...month for board and lodging, and be at home before 9 o'clock in the evening, under penalty of exclusion from the medical course. Many of the ladies protested at first against this apparent restriction put upon their liberty, but eventually moved into their new official quarters. [St. Petersburg dispatch to the London Times...
...spasmodic outburst of feeling, too sure to defeat its own end. Originality is introduced. Poetry is more frequent, though not always of the best. The humorous column comes direct from the editors' pen, and is not so frequently clipped. Illustrations appear, more taste displayed, papers regular and with dispatch, showing that they are edited for a purpose, to express opinions and convey news, and not simply for the sake of having a paper. General college news is gathered and topics of universal educational interests discussed. We can read in this that those different colleges have stepped beyond the line...
...dispatch was received at the Harvard Observatory yesterday from Melbourne, Australia, announcing the discovery of a new comet...
...dispatch from London says that the resignation of Minister Lowell of the rector ship of St. Andrews is much regretted both by his supporters among the electors and by the officers of the university...
...previous refusal of Columbia to play and the consequent forfeiture of the game to us, the utter absurdity of this communication is apparent at once. In excuse for Columbia however, it must be said that further inquiries by our manager soon gained us the information that the dispatch was not genuine and presumably a "grind." We can only deplore the lamentable want of tact in the person who sent this insulting communication, for had he possessed ordinary comprehension he must have seen in what an unenviable position he placed himself and his associates by his foolishness...