Word: firma
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...regard to Mr. Warren's photographic efforts is decidedly one of disappointment. Perhaps it is safe to say that much was not expected; for the selection of the committee was at the very best but a leap in the dark, and nobody had any expectation of landing on terra firma. Certain it is that if by terra firma is meant good faithful work, the result shows a wide gap between land and water. For ourselves, we saw at the time no reason why Mr. Notman should be cast aside and the self-styled (Cambridgeport) "Celebrity Photographer" should be employed...
...again by the action of the elements. Municipal laws allow a person twenty-four hours in which to have the sidewalks belonging to him cleared. It would be well for us, apparently, if some higher power looked after those whose business it is to see that we have terra firma to walk...
...order to console those who live in nightly dread of awaking to find their way to terra firma cut off by the flames, we print the following: "A fire ladder has been purchased. Two ladders long enough to reach the highest windows in the College dormitories are now kept in the Yard to serve as fire-escapes in case of need. At night a watch is kept about the buildings, with a special view to the early discovery of fire...
...road is dusty. (I anathematize Jenkins for advising me to come to Norway.) The more I pull on the reins the faster the horse goes. Despair! After two hours of misery we come to a town; the horse stops of his own accord, and I descend to terra firma more dead than alive...