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Word: far (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Christmas number of the Advocate which is out to-day, is by far the best number of the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/17/1886 | See Source »

...there are about 60 societies of which the Co-operative Society and the Memorial Hall Association are by far the largest of the Greek fraternities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 12/16/1886 | See Source »

...more community of feeling between the students than in former years although they have come together from thirty-two different colleges and they have an annual "Commemoration Day" observed in the same manner as Class Day. They also have clubs for debate and amusement and have even gone so far as to provide themselves with a tennis court...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/15/1886 | See Source »

Trojan's library was by far the most complete. There is evidence that books might be taken out of the public libraries. Many of these were sooner or later destroyed by fire. Christian lioraries devoted to scriptural writings were very common in the first centuries after Christ...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prof. Lanciani's Lecture. | 12/14/1886 | See Source »

...history of libraries in ancient and medieval Rome has not yet been written and can only be learned in a fragmentary manner. Prof. Rossi's recent work on this subject is by far the most important source of information...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prof. Lanciani's Lecture. | 12/14/1886 | See Source »

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