Word: fours
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...sake of reference, we have arranged the following statistics of the weights of the four six-oar crews...
...Four policemen...
...feather duster, which she shook around the room, thereby shifting the dust from the bookcase to the centre table, from the centre table to the side table, and so about the room. I have calculated that the dust revolves around the room at the rate of once in four days, and that it gains half its volume in every revolution...
...large number of men gain that first practice in writing which is necessary to wear away the newness of their pens and make them run freely. Then the themes and forensics are sufficiently numerous, in the last three years, to allow the student on the average only four weeks to compose each one, which is certainly by no means too long for those who have acquired no great facility in arranging their ideas. These are all carefully examined by able Professors, who give their opinions upon the merits or demerits of each essay to its author, so that...
...rising of the curtain, the four characters are discovered, seated in different postures about the room...