Word: giving
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...hours of the day, within these walls, by any lad of fifteen, and yet not read, outside, by any man under eighty. Here are your books; take them back to their alcoves to be purified by the dust of ages and dog-eared by interested youth. Well, can you give me Praed's poems...
...What can you give me?" I sighed...
...Finance Club will not probably give any more lectures this year...
...list of Professors who have consented to give instruction in the proposed University for women appeared in the Woman's Journal, and has been widely copied. The list, however, was made without any authority, and is quite incomplete. With hardly an exception, the Professors regard the new movement with favor, and all those whose other duties will allow them are willing to give instruction, and some even offered their services gratuitously...
...easily, until the height reached was 6 feet 3 inches, when Mr. Paine failed to get over. At the next peg Mr. Fowler dropped from the list, and as none of the three remaining contestants succeeded in clearing the bar at 6 feet 9 inches, it was decided to give the cup to the one who made the cleanest vault at that height. Mr. Watson was the winner in the final trial...