Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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This motion created such a sensation that a dozen gentlemen rose to their feet at once; and some confusion ensued, in the midst of which a learned professioner shouted, telling off the words on his fingers, "Use your brains, gentlemen; use what brains you have!" At this, the meeting broke up with considerable disturbance, the last speaker heading a rush for the door...
ABOUT twenty-five men tried for the Glee Club last Tuesday evening, and a dozen more applied...
...himself. We grant that some subjects may be taught in this way, but surely not theology. . . . Few religious men like to see theological teaching converted into an exercise for sharpening the wits, or would like to see young men exposed to the influence of professors who took half a dozen different views of the Trinity and the Atonement...
...members of the Memorial Hall Dining Association consume daily 100 dozen eggs, 120 gallons of soup, 200 pounds of butter, 200 gallons of milk, 150 pounds of fish, 300 pounds of chicken, 400 pounds of mutton, and 1100 pounds of beef...
...quite a number of little improvements which the New-Londoners had planned to make, for the benefit of the University crews of Harvard and Yale, will necessarily have to be abandoned in case any other crews are in practice at the same time upon the river. Having for a dozen years and more attended all the intercollegiate regattas at Worcester, Springfield, and Saratoga, and having carefully examined the causes which have invariably produced dissatisfaction on the part of the crews and the spectators, or both, I have become thoroughly convinced that the only hope of permanently establishing the annual University...