Word: hottest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...When the college men saw that the Meds were gaining steadily they combined their forces. With united vigor they hurled themselves against the advancing phalanx. But in vain! On and on it moved until the bottom of the stone steps leading to Medical Hall had been reached. Here the hottest fighting of the day was done. The college men collected their forces at the top of the embankment and charged from above, creating great slaughter among medical hats...
...weather yesterday was the coldest known for several years. The thermometer reached 12 degrees below zero at Beck, which is generally known as the hottest place in Cambridge...
...option of taking their examinations either in the summer or in the fall. Why cannot this custom be introduced into the college, in the case of all the lower class men. A man is expected to render an account of a year's work in three hours of the hottest weather it is possible to scare up. He jumps from recitations to examinations, and his only desire is to get through the period, regardless whether he does well or not. In many of the courses here, the lectures and recitations merely serve to point out to a man the best...
...President expects to spend most of the month of July at the Soldiers' Home, north of the city, where most of the Presidents, since Lincoln's time, have lived in the hottest weather, when it was necessary for them to be in Washington...