Word: availed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...special study of this delightful play of Shakespeare's for a reading in Boston last winter; but comparatively few men could hear him on that occasion. Now an opportunity will be given to hear him in Cambridge, and we have no doubt that a large number of men will avail themselves...
...course in electrical engineering. The number of men who spplied for permission to take the course was so large that all could not be accommodated at the Cambridge Manual Training school. It the school were properly equipped with machinery and tools, there is no doubt that many students would avail themselves of the opportunity to learn the use of tools...
...opened for the affirmative by Hall. He began by stating that all partisan feeling should be laid aside at the out-set. He then briefiy reviewed the facts in the matter, stating what Speakers Reed's rulings were and what the circumstances were that had enabled him to avail himself of them. He then cited instances to show that the speaker of the house was justified in the plan of procedure that he had adopted...
Many students cannot afford to purchase the larger dictionaries and as they desire to avail themselves of the greater advantages for study which these works offer, they naturally go to the library to use them. But now one cannot use a Lexicon unless he stands before a rack and holds his books while he studies and meantime he is keeping numerous others waiting...
...urge them to make the best of their opportunities so long as the river remains free from ice and the weather mild. If we put forth our best energies now some of the more technical work will be early done, and thus the spring training will be of greater avail...