Word: around
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...clock, Harvard Hall, Holden Chapel, and the entrance to the seats around the Tree will be opened to those having tickets...
...club feet, could walk from one end of the country to another in no less than a year. The ship which I took at Canton brought me first to San Francisco. The people of that city showed me great respect. Whenever they saw me on the street, they crowded around me and shouted "Oh, see the Chinaman; pull his pigtail; knock him down!" - expressions which, my interpreter told me, signified great pleasure of seeing me. Some even actually pulled my long plait of hair, - evidently a very high compliment. For the Americans express good-will by touching one another. When...
...first was upon the body of a youth of about eighteen, who had come to an untimely end by over-eating. I learned that his name was Simpel, and that he had been a member of the Freshman class here. The chief interest in this case centred around the heart, which the surgeons took especial care to dissect. On cutting away the pericardium, the aorta was found to wear a greenish hue, attributable, I was told, to the tender age of the subject. One lobe was slightly toughened, and I noticed that this hardness was gradually spreading over the whole...
...when a storm in the summer spreads darkly around the horizon...
...poor Sophomore who had laid down his elective in History 7 and had taken French 1 found that there was some punishment worse than being perpetually rocked to sleep. The Annex beauties who had exchanged their beauty for knowledge went around wailing because the scouts no longer stopped their work to carry them over the college puddles...