Word: ever
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...response to the second call for candidates for the Freshman crew, 153 men presented themselves yesterday afternoon at the rowing room of the Gymnasium. Of these, 109 came out at the first call on November 2. The total number of men is by far the largest that ever came out for a class crew, the number last year being under a hundred. Captain Goodrich addressed the candidates, briefly outlining the work of the next few weeks. The regular work which will be very light until after Christmas, will begin on Monday...
...splendid pair of black, heavy shoes, leather lined, made for hard winter wear and skating. The best for the money ever seen. Come in and look at this line before you purchase a pair of shoes...
...Johnson's place in this list is due chiefly to the very excellent picture Boswell has given of him. Macaulay never admired Boswell, claiming that he was simply a good reporter, but he was far more more than that, and his life of Johnson is surely the best biography ever written in English, probably the best ever written in any language. It seems rather remarkable in the face of this very successful and personal biography, that Boswell was with Johnson only 278 days during all of the twenty years in which he knew...
...Last night's debate was a fair contest, and resulted in a fair but close victory for Yale. Taken simply as a debate, it was the best ever held in the Yale-Harvard series. It was direct all the way through, it never hung on the wording of the question, and it was not marred by any slip of either side. Another characteristic was the intense interest aroused by every speaker and maintained throughout the debate by the exact knowledge of the subject shown on both teams, the perfect form of presentation of Harvard, and the convincing earnestness of Yale...
...possession of Pearl Harbor by the United States would prevent any other people ever holding it as a base of supplies...