Word: ages
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Bulletin Elm," at Princeton, has grown weak from old age and is shortly to be cut down...
...Home rule would have an evil effect upon Great Britain.- National Rev., v., 238, vii., 272, 281; Spectator, lviii., 1092; Fortnightly Rev., xlv., 861; Living Age, clxvi...
...houses, there has been a constant emigration from College Hill to the village. Of the students rooming in town above a hundred and ten live in society houses. These houses are owned by the Amherst chapters of the various Greek letter fraternities. Seven in number, they differ greatly in age, architecture, size, situation, convenience and elegance. Besides the secret lodge-room, the parlors and reading-room, each house has accommodations for from ten to eighteen students. They are really college homes; and, forming as they do, the recognized centres of society life, they are of the utmost importance as giving...
...rule, all the measurements of a small person fall to the left, and all the measurement of a large person fall to the right of the normal line. If strong for his age, weight, height or development, the part of his line that indicates the strength will be on the right of the part that indicates the age, weight or measurement...
...chart are plotted the measurements of an individual of American ancestry-his age, 33 years, weight, 161 pounds, and height, 5 feet, 9.7 inches Upon referring to the chart, it will be noticed that the most remarkable characteristic of this figure is its approach to perfect symmetry in some parts, and its marked divergence from it in others. The weight, which is a trifle heavy for the height, is very uniformly distributed, the only excess being in the region of the chest, hips and arms. The relative proportion of the different heights of the body is very nearly true...