Word: fors
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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ATHLETICS.That track on Jarvis or Holmes seems to be a thing of the less vivid future. If the H. A. A. cannot secure Jarvis, let them take Holmes, and have the fifth of a mile track laid out immediately, so that men can begin to train at once. It should...
Bicycling.Bicyclists should bear in mind that another handsome prize will be offered for their branch of sports at the fall meeting of the H. A. A., and govern themselves accordingly. Now, if the H. A. A. will inaugurate the system of bi-weekly handicaps in this and other sports, we...
When my neighbor calls to return a borrowed book, and for a whole hour imposes upon me his theories respecting the Eastern Question, all of which it required less than five minutes to glean from an article in a newspaper of the evening previous, I fully realize this evil. How...
The sound of one's own voice is generally so delightful that many persons are unmindful of its effect on the weary listener, who has unfortunately been bound a captive to the prosy tyrant's ambition for a subject.
To some extent this curse contains the seeds of its own destruction, for prosy talkers soon become known, and are anxiously avoided as a pest. But they cannot always be evaded, for prosiness is not wholly confined to talkers, although with them it is most common. But in books, and...