Word: founds
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...signs of disintegration, and guessed at first glance from what house it emanated. On opening the cover, sure enough, the name of "Scribner" appeared on the title-page. And Scribner is not alone. A friend who bought a text-book of the Boston agents of another New York firm found, on taking it home, that several leaves were loose. He at once took it back to ask an exchange, but was greeted with a refusal, accompanied by the information that "they did n't warrant cloth-bound books...
...Ages," published in the same form. The whole work is compressed into one by no means unwieldy volume, of very clear type, the only omissions being certain parts of the less important remarks, and most of the notes printed at the foot of the pages. Altogether it will be found to be a very convenient edition, and hardly inferior, in point of matter, to the larger...
...great wealth of Stephen Girard found its offset in his low and pitiable existence...
Tutor to Freshman. "Your translation is incorrect; it is not as I explained it yesterday." Fresh. "I know it, sir; I looked the matter up after recitation, and I found that you were wrong." - Chronicle...
When Professor Trowbridge heard of the undertaking, he became very much interested, and endeavored in every possible way to render assistance. Through his kindness the Company were allowed to test the resistance of their line-wire by connecting it with the Physical Laboratory. They found the resistance to be one seventh of that between Boston and New York. The Company then set about connecting the different buildings of the Yard with one another, and shortly afterward Mr. Burgwyn, in Thayer, essayed a match-game of chess versus Messrs. Angell, Young, MacVane, and Otis, in Hollis...