Word: half-past
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DEUTSCHER VEREIN. There will be a meeting of the Verein this evening at half-past seven in Stoughton 21. Mr. Max Winkler will read a paper on "Goethe and Frau von Stein...
...wish to call attention to the excellent plan which the Co-operative Society offers of doing errands for members. For the small sum of ten cents almost any little errand in Boston will be done by a messenger boy, who starts in town at about half-past one o'clock and returns before six. If for example a man wishes to send a message in town in the afternoon and to receive a reply in three or four hours, it is very convenient and a great economy in time to employ the messenger. Moreover, it is a great satisfaction...
...MCCLEARY, JR., Capt.There will be a meeting of the Finance Club this evening at half-past seven in U. 13. President Eliot will address the members on the subject of the Finances of the University...
...public dinners. The audience had come to listen and did not waste time needlessly! (This exclamation mark is our own.) There was no formality, cigars were speedily lighted and every one prepared to endure the speeches as long as speeches were forthcoming. Even the departure of the president at half-past four did not break up the company, which sat without any display of weariness till half-past seven. Truly the Americans are a patient and much enduring race...
They enter a bath-room, say at half-past four; after carefully wasting about nine tenths of the hot water in the boilers, they proceed to soak, and enjoy life for an hour. Then leaving the tub with evident regret, they dress with a masterly leisure that is only acquired by constant practice. If fortune smiles, the bath-room is well rid of them by six o'clock; if she frowns, the rows of shivering men waiting for their turn, are lucky if it comes at half past...