Word: even
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...next presented to Amy Robsart, who asked me so many questions about Queen Elizabeth - Lizzie, as she called her - that I mentally vowed I would take a course in History next year. She said she would be even with Varney yet, and asked if I knew his address. I said I did not, but suggested that the Angel Gabriel would be likely to know...
...American student-life have appeared in Die Gegenwart. The author, Mr. Otto Gross, selecting Harvard as the representative college, calls her the oldest and most renowned of American colleges, and Yale her Tochteranstalt. These are almost the only true statements which he makes. His pictures of college life are even falser than the Herald's, and must have been taken from "Student Life at Harvard" or derived from a correspondence with Dr. F-h-b-r. Here is one of the conversations...
Fury is vain, - even its turbid...
...there were four entries: Messrs. W. W. Kent, '82; E. J. Wendell, '82; C. Stetson, '81; and J. B. Field, '80. Stetson started best, and held Wendell for fifteen or twenty yards, when he was passed by Wendell, whose time was 10 3/4 s. Stetson and Field were nearly even for second and third places...
...writes a character upon the blackboard, and the student pronounces it after him until it is firmly fixed. Great delicacy of ear and eye is required, and much mechanical drudgery must be endured. Patience is the first requisite. No interpreter is needed until some advance has been made, and even then Sir Thomas Wade's Progressive Course in Colloquial and Documentary Chinese will go far towards supplying his place. A knowledge of Chinese sufficient for business purposes may be acquired in two, or at most, three years; and one of the subscribers to our professorship acquired it in six months...