Word: weed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Weed, William...
...first suggestion; and that is that preliminary bouts in wrestling be held in order to weed out the entries, some time before the day of the meeting, so that on that day there will be fewer contestants, and accordingly, less time taken up. At this last meeting there was an hour's actual wrestling, and this, with the long waits necessary between the falls, made the events very tiresome and long drawnout. This proposed condensation of the wrestling would not only economize time, but would also lend fresh interest to the bouts, since the contestants would be more skilful...
...tenth ten of the Institute of 1770 from '90 are: Bates, Howe, Richmond, C. F. Judson, O. B. Judson, Gorham, Lund, Tyson, Emmons, Thorndike. Honorary members: Lewis, Hartridge, Corning, Codman, Beecher, Ware, Garrison, Weed, Stevens, McKean, Warren...
Never more popular and prosperous than to-day, the Magazine of American History opens its nineteenth volume with a wonderfully interesting January number. The opening article, "Thurlow Weed's Home in New York," by Mrs. Martha J. Lamb, the editor of the magazine, is a highly interesting paper richly illustrated with exterior and interior news of the house. The description of the house and its distinguished occupant is very graphic, and Mr. Weed's wonderful experience in France at a critical period during our Civil war is charmingly told. The writer's simple and easy style only serves...
...Weed, A. R., Signet