Word: fugit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...senior class at Columbia has decided to place as a memorial an open fire-place costing about $500, in the west wall of Phoenix Collection Hall of Columbia College directly under the portrait of President Barnard. The fire place will bear the inscription "Fugit Irreparabile Tempus," and the date...
...TEMPUS FUGIT, '85.Nov...
Auctioneer, whose acquaintance with Latin is limited: "Going, gentlemen, going, an eight-day clock, in a mahogany case made by that celebrated maker, Tom Fugit...
...totally different from Greek), I wrote in this tongue stories of Indian mythology which I thought might be parallel to the Greek myths. When the examination was over, I walked out feeling that, whatever the examiners might say, they could not accuse me of being commonplace. Well, tempus fugit (notice my exact knowledge of Latin quantity). One day I received a notification commonly yclept a summons. Veni, vidi, vici. The assembled Faculty received me with uncovered heads. The chairman of the returning board bored me with an address three hours long. He alluded in feeling terms to the evidence contained...