Word: half
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...officers of College societies for the next half-year are as follows...
...constitution was drawn up to go into effect upon its adoption by five different colleges. The time and place suggested for the opening contest was New York City January 7, 1875, so that, happening during the holidays, it will add still another attraction to the pleasure-giving metropolis. Only half the colleges represented had agreed to be bound by the action of their representatives, and to some of the other half that hot-bed of iniquity, Saratoga, was an insurmountable obstacle to their participation. We are in doubt as to the character of the proposed contests...
...that the mind is not burdened by their remembrance, but accepts them readily as developments of a general plan. The only arbitrary marks are the "word-signs," which stand for about a hundred of our commonest words, since it is a fact not widely known that one half of all the English spoken and written consists of repetitions of these hundred words...
...important lectures, in which each sentence contains a fact or suggestion not to be lost without injury. The life of professional men, too, presents many opportunities when the employment of a mode of writing four or five times quicker than any other will afford the much-needed hour or half-hour for rest and enjoyment. The lawyer in his cases, the minister in his sermons, the business man in his records and copies, the author in his daily jottings and quotations from books too rare or expensive to be within his purchasing power, - all these may find a most valuable...
...system of signals the positions of the different boats at every half-mile will be known at the finish, - a system as effective and less expensive than that of telegraphing. Harvard's quarters are not chosen finally; but the most retired and comfortable ones will be obtained. The hotel accommodations are unequalled elsewhere; the lake is easily accessible; low prices are promised; and, in fact, it would seem that every condition of success, in this direction, will attend the regatta...