Word: actually
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...examples in "compound and complex fractions" which were more difficult than any operation which any bank cashier in the city of Boston has occasion to perform, in the course of his business, from January to December? The most jagged fractions, such as would hardly ever be found in actual business operations, e. g. 11-29 or 13-27, are piled one on top of another, to produce unreal and impossible difficulty; and the child, having been furnished with such an arithmetical monstrosity, is set to multiplying or dividing it by another "compound and complex fraction" as unreal and ridiculous...
...broke the Technology record of 8 ft. 8 in. He kicked the tambourine at 8 ft. 9 1-2 in. The only Harvard man in the fence-vault was unfortunately very tall and had to give his competitors a handicap of 3 3-4 inches in consequence. By actual vaulting he came in second, with a record...
...three musical societies, the Glee Club, the Pierian Sodality and Banjo Club, accepted the invitation of the Classical Club to give this concert cannot be too highly commended. Harvard was largely instrumental in founding the American School, but has as a university been extraordinarily slow to contribute any actual sum for its support. To quote from an admirable editorial in the last "Harvard Monthly": "It is rather surprising that our students have done so little, while our professors have done so much, for the school. The example of the students of the University of Pennsylvania should rouse...
...express it in the blue book than to know more, and be too muddled and tired to remember it. This working until breakfast with a wet towel around your head is very romantic when you tell it to your sympathizing lady friends, but it is of no use in actual practise. Finally don't study up to the last moment. Take a good breakfast then take a shave and a quiet smoke between 9 and 10 o'clock and then go into the examination room with a clear head and a calm philosophic frame of mind...
Assyrian art is generally divided into two period; of the earlier one which extends about down to the 8th century before Christ, we have no actual remains, as the temples were restored, and often entirely rebuilt by the later kings. It was customary to restore the decaying buildings of earlier times and we learn from numerous inscriptions that the kings wished all sorts of imprecations on the heads of those of their successors who should not maintain the temples and palaces they built. For knowledge of this earlier period we must depend on inscriptions. The later period which extends down...