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Brewer's: Lazar House

or Lazaretto. A house for poor persons affected with contagious diseases. So called from the beggar Lazarus (q.v.). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…

Brewer's: Gulf

A man that goes in for honour at Cambridge —i.e. a mathematical degree—is sometimes too bad to be classed with the lowest of the three classes, and yet has shown sufficient merit to pass.…

Chauncey Judd: The Judd Family

Religious Aspects of War Puritan Training The Judd Family The family to which our young friend, Chauncey Judd, belonged was descended from one of the oldest and most respectable in…

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William JaggardThomas JamesJeremiah Whipple JenksGeorg JensenNicolas Jenson William Stanley JevonsSteve JobsJohn of SpeyerEldridge Reeves JohnsonEmory Richard JohnsonHoward JohnsonTom Loftin…

Brewer's: Poke

A bag, pouch, or sack. Poke A lazy person, a loafer, a dawdler. Poke To thrust or push against; to thrust or butt with the horns. Also to busy oneself without any definite object. “…

1997 NAIA D2 College Football Playoffs Results

First round (Nov. 23)Westminster Coll. (Pa.) 27Clinch Valley Coll. (Va.) 20Northwestern Coll. (Ia.) 14Valley City St. (ND) 7Sioux Falls (SD) 56Mary (ND) 19Lambuth (Tenn.) 34Benedictine Coll…

Chauncey Judd: Search for the Fugitives

Wooster's Well Dayton's Den Search for the Fugitives Let us return briefly, and trace the progress of the pursuit. The party that were in search of the missing boy, being joined…

1999 NAIA D1 College Football Playoffs Results

NAIA returned to a single division playoff for its football championship in 1997.First Round (Nov. 20)at Taylor (Ind.) 38Mo. Valley College 12at Hastings (Neb.) 45Bethany (Kan.) 23at…

Chauncey Judd

by Israel P. Warren Published in 1874 Reprinted from the original by The Perry Press Naugatuck, Conn. 1906 Contents Preface Special Notice Returning From Mill The Tories…

Brewer's: Cheese

Tusser says that a cheese, to be perfect, should not be like (1) Gehazi, i.e. dead white, like a leper; (2) not like Lot's wife, all salt; (3) not like Argus, full of eyes; (4) not like…