Word: circular
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...holy horns of Beelzebub, if I bust my biler, I'll run that blasted critter down." The tender was emptied into the boiler, and the fireman sat on the safety-valve, and we ploughed along like an enraged elephant whose legs have been cut off by a circular saw. Still the calf kept a "leetle mite ahead," now and then playfully tapping the boiler front with its hind feet. At last it was too much for patience; Bill madly pulled the throttle for a final spurt, when, quite unfortunately, - sp-t-t-t-r, - the boiler ripped, all the water...
...Club has sent out about five hundred copies of the Circular which it has issued in regard to the proposed Scholarship...
...circular sent out by the Art Club and printed in another column needs but little explanation. Nothing has been done of late years by undergraduates that will add so much to the permanent advantages of the University. The object of the club is to secure a collection of ancient works of art, which will be loaned to the University on the one condition that members of the club and others can always have access to it. The melancholy fate of the Gray engravings has made such a proviso necessary. It is the opinion of Professor Norton that the holder...
...request of the Art Club we print the following Circular, which they have lately issued...
...thought prevailing among the more educated classes of the younger part of the nation. Thus, in Oxford, the motion that "this house sympathizes with the insurrection in Herzegovina" was carried, 56 to 8. In Cambridge, "that this house strongly disapproves of the conduct of government regarding the Admiralty circular relating to fugitive slaves," was carried...