Word: half
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Before half-after-eight...
...following are the officers of the Everett Athenaeum for the second half-year: President, W. C. Lane; Vice-president, J. C. Rolfe; Secretary, J. H. Seaverns; Treasurer, E. A. Whitman; Standing Committee, H. E. Greene, H. L. Wheeler, W. L. Worcester; Editors, M. St. C. Wright, A. O. Jameson, C. T. Dazey; Stage Manager, E. S. Wentworth; Chorister, S. H. Spalding...
...thanking you for the Harvard papers you sent me. I read in them the account of last autumn's sports, but, to tell you frankly, I was surprised as much at the poor records as at the few entries. To think that only two contestants appeared for the half-mile run, for instance, - only two out of a thousand men at your University! Why, at Eton or Harrow or any school here, I am sure there would have been ten times that number, at least half of whom would have beaten that time. Tell me, is it that Harvard...
...record and general notoriety. A confession of his financial position not only costs a clergyman nothing, but his pride may be honestly gratified in making it. But how stands the case with an embarrassed physician in city practice? Hard times have come, and he finds the dues from half his patients not collectible. His professional position requires him to live in an expensive house upon which he pays taxes, though the mortgage upon it exceeds its value. His health is failing from overwork, and, so far as exemption from financial anxiety goes, he is in a worse position than...
...arranged along both sides of a huge hall. There was one representing a Greek house; within were seen various groups in Greek costume; in one corner Homer addressing a band of chosen heroes; in another sat Ulysses with his dog; while Xenophon was telling his dream to a few half-starved soldiers. In the centre, the three great writers of Greek tragedy had joined hands in a mystic choral dance, while Aristophanes stood at one side, making faces at them...