Word: founds
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...found it desirable to take a little voyage. Why? Well - So I took passage in a ship bound to Panama, hoping thus to get again to an abode of temperance and virtue...
...work thoroughly and faithfully. Our professors have written books and essays of great value, but, under the present system, they have little leisure for this, and their enthusiasm must be almost extinguished after hearing a stupid recitation, or giving deductions for a series of "deads." Cannot some Hopkins be found to aid Harvard in completing that work which she has already so nobly begun...
...dreamy and romantic. I found Granada perfect, but unhappily Granada disagreed with me. I had been there but two days when my Moorish reveries began to be interrupted by - colic. I tried to walk it off. It was no use. The more I walked the worse was the pain, and finally I reluctantly yielded to fate, settled myself in a charming little room in the very shadow of the grand old Moorish palace, and determined to physic myself into a respectable physical state. I was quite alone. The picturesque Spaniards about me did not look like reliable medical authorities...
AFTER suffering in silence from the cold at prayers for two days, we instructed our reporters to ascertain exactly how cold it was; and accordingly, on Wednesday, two of them gave us the following results. One of them, in a comparatively secluded corner, found his thermometer had fallen to 42, and as yet showed no intention of remaining fixed; the other, in a more exposed situation, yet not more exposed than that occupied by most of the two upper classes, recorded a temperature of 36. Under such circumstances as these, we should like to ask those of our government...
EDITOR MAGENTA: "Percy Starke" sends this ingenious Chess puzzle, found pasted on the back of an old Chess Book. By beginning at the right word, and going from square to square as a Knight moves, he found eight lines of poetry...