Word: compounding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sciences. Harvard, almost alone among American colleges, has paid attention to this science. As if by magic, one versed in this wonderful science can look through solid rock and tell what lies hidden far within. The tool of the petrographist is a polarizing microscope, that is, an ordinary compound microscope in which two Nicol's prisms of Iceland spar are placed at a certain distance apart...
...Lydia Pinkham, whose name and features are familiar to many newspaper readers as the originator of Lydia Pinkham's compound, died at Lynn on Thursday evening from paralysis...
...foot-ball game on Saturday between '85 and '86, G. Woodbury '86, captain, met with an unfortunate accident, suffering a compound dislocation of a fore-finger...
...name was such a curious compound of commercial Americanism, Hebrew blue-blood, and Latin aristocracy, and the name of his native place, Saug Centre, was so picturesque, while, moreover, I had thought so much about that line of words in the catalogue, that I so breathed into them an individuality, a soul, that Benjamin Emilius became one of my daily companions during those last autumn days when the leaves fall and the bursar rejoices in a fresh opportunity to answer numerous and voluminous questions with that laconic brevity so characteristic of that functionary...
...freshmen's banquet at Ithica, N. Y., took place Friday evening. The sophomores threw a few bottles, with a chemical compound therein, at the windows, and made a great deal of noise, but they finally withdrew. The two kidnapped freshmen were not released until Saturday morning...