Word: fresh
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...fresh the green the valley through...
...resolutions for 1874, some person, or persons, appear to have resolved to read extensively in magazine literature. So fierce is this thirst for knowledge that every American magazine for January disappeared from the Reading Room during vacation. They have been replaced, and, as the joke seems to be as fresh as ever, we presume it will be repeated...
...hand of improvement has visited us quite severely during the vacation. The settees have been removed from several recitation-rooms and their places filled by some indescribable desks (?). The smell of black walnut and fresh varnish in the rooms suggests an undertaker's shop most forcibly. Prophetic of some future dead...
...athlete, too, has abundant chance for exercise. The ice at Fresh Pond is black and smooth (unless it rains, as it has done, most of the time, for the past fortnight), and the celebrated pleasures of the "ringing steel" are at his command. The Brighton Road, too, in sleighing-time, affords a lively and interesting scene. How much better to enjoy it on foot than to run the risk of one of those dreadful accidents which happen every day to drivers there...
...thorough manner in which he completed the task allotted him placed him at once among the leading naturalists of the day. In 1832 he was honored with a professorship in the College of Neufchatel. His first great work was published in 1839, entitled "Natural History of the Fresh-Water Fishes of Central Europe," and at the same time "Researches concerning Fossil Fishes" came out. On these works his reputation was securely established. It was while gathering information for them that he became acquainted with Cuvier, whose teachings had great influence over him, and also with Humboldt, to whose apartments...