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Word: grains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Latta, '89, is in the grain-supply house of Counciliman and Day, Chicago...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/8/1889 | See Source »

...Canada were all in favor of annexation; the sentimentalists alone opposed it. The resources of Canada are great, but as yet undeveloped; the amalgamation of its population and that of United States easy; their feelings, languages and religions similar, and the fertility of Canadian soil in raising grain ought to prove its value. For the negative, G. A. Reisner, '89, proceeded to show the inconsistency of his opponent. He maintained that the characteristics and institutions of the Canadians totally opposed those of United States; they would be unwilling to be annexed without war, and, even in case of annexation without...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Union Debate. | 3/9/1888 | See Source »

...metallurgy, engineer of mines and metallurgist, electrical engineer and analytical chemist, besides higher degrees of M. A., M. S. and Ph. D. In presence of such a collection of high-sounding names, a modest Harvard man stands aghast until he remembers that their value must be taken with a grain of salt.- Cambridge Tribune...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/16/1888 | See Source »

Robt. Corwin, captain of last year's Yale foot-ball team, is at the head of a western grain elevator...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Romor. | 1/9/1888 | See Source »

...privileges offered in the use of them that the general opinion must have obtained that the students were an irresponsible set of mischievous school children, and also that the library management was very inadequate. While rare instances of abuse may have occurred, we feel sure that a grain of patience added to a grain of comprehension could be taken by the grumblers with good effect. The books which cannot be found are not always "surreptitiously taken by a member of - ," as the communication of yesterday in regard to the binder showed. The communication to-day speaks of their being left...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/12/1887 | See Source »

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