Word: broken
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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GROUND has been already broken for the new Gymnasium, and the prospect is good that it will be completed some time in the autumn. Proposals for making the old Gymnasium into a swimming-bath are now in order...
NOTWITHSTANDING the cloud of difficulties that seemed to hang over the H. A. A. a few weeks, ago, some light seems to have broken in on it at last, and the prospects of a very good meeting at Beacon Park are becoming hourly better...
...believe he speaks truth, like some broken old watch...
...which comes over me deepens as I take my seat, for I know that my dexter companion will give me no repose. My Plutonic melancholy, the heated room, the dull Livy, -all are conducive to slumber; the very instructor seems admirably chosen to that end: but my naps are broken by my active neighbor, who says, "The French Left Centre don't care for the status quo, and the Pope's legs are horribly swollen." Now I don't know what a status quo is, and I don't believe he does. Why will he talk so? I was secretly...
...change in the nature of the attacks, inasmuch as our assailants left truth entirely out of the question, and substituted - when any substitution was attempted - newspaper wit. On one occasion an agent of the Associated Press telegraphed all over the country that a Boston free-love convention had been broken up by Harvard students. Although the statement was entirely unfounded, it was published far and wide, and it also furnished the Graphic's artist with several pictures with which to adorn the front page of that reliable sheet...