Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Latin Grammar at the Boston Latin School,-only a few years ago, and we are his contemporaries. I contend that these charges are libelous, both as against Mr. Evarts and the overseers. Still, there are younger alumni, and you can, if you see fit, in your next election, drop some of us silvertops and insert some younger graduates. Remember, however, that...
...manuscript on the high desk before him, over which only the top of his head is visible to the students, and reads steadily, or putting his hands in his pockets lounges back in his pulpit, where he is only visible to those at the side. Almost all the lecturers drop the voice two or three words before the close of the sentence, which renders it difficult to follow them...
...just as those slender, livid fingers last arranged it. She bears no wound, but upon the small, coquettish face is stamped such a look of horror as it might well break a mother's heart to gaze upon. A middle aged man, short, thick-set and resolute looking, has dropped dead in the street, and the gendarmes have brought the nameless body here. He wears a blue blouse, and his cap is still upon his head; his sleeves, rolled up, disclose two arms of unusual muscularity. This man died hard. Yes, and yet his death was infinitely easier than...
...their places polite requests from Mr. A. Z. Bowen to be as " quiet as possible " at the ringing of the gong. When the gong rang, in spite of the very large number of men in the hall, it became so very quiet that one could have heard a pin drop. Two pictures were taken at the first gong, one being taken by Mr. A. S. Johnson, '85, president of the Harvard Society of Amateur Photographers...
...their own. The effect of this action was immediate. The local tradesmen who had formerly kept prices up to a most unfair standard by their concerted action, were compelled to make immediate reductions. In fact, the leading book-sellers advertised the works required by students at a drop of nearly 30 per cent. from the prices demanded the year previous to the formation of the society. Such a result as this naturally was properly appreciated by the students, and they have entered so thoroughly into the spirit of the reform that its success is now assured. After seeing what...