Word: westernizes
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...occurred the remarkable Western tour of the Nine. It opened with a splendid game in which Yale was beaten 22 to 24, on July 3. The Haymakers, Mutuals, Red Stockings, and numerous other professional clubs were met, and twenty out of twenty-six games were won. This was the climax of Bush's base-ball career, and it has been said of him that without doubt he was the best player the country had seen...
BOSTON MUSEUM. - 7.45 P.M.; Matinees Wednesday and Saturday at 2. The season at the Museum closes on May 29, with the present engagement of Annie Pixley in "M'liss, the Child of the Sierras," - the story of a rather wild Western girl. Miss Pixley introduces several songs with good effect...
...following from a Western paper may be interesting to rhetorical Sophomores: 'The bone of contention has been cast into our midst, and, unless nipped in the bud, threatens to burst into a conflagration which will deluge the whole land.'" - Brunonian...
...lady's name is soft as western wind...
...only word we have for voluntarily omitting recitation or chapel, has a number of synonyms. At Columbia they prefer to slope, at Michigan University they bolt, and in some of the western "educational institutions" they skate Mr. Black is unable to find derivations for these words. Slope is to be found in Hotten's Slang Dictionary, meaning "to decamp, run off," and is called an Americanism. Cut is found in the same place, meaning "to stop, cease to do anything...