Word: half
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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EACH year our newspapers and magazines are interesting themselves more and more with the affairs of other countries, so that it is now no uncommon thing to find half the editorial space in a morning journal, or a long article in a leading review, devoted to the last kaleidoscopic change in a European cabinet, or indeed among European nations. Unless the reader, anxious to keep himself posted on current events, is quite well acquainted with the different forms of government in use in different countries, he soon becomes hopelessly entangled among Gallicans, Legitimists, and Republicans; a vote of want...
...name,' and "What's-his-name bequeaths it unto Thing-a-my," and so they go on bequeathing, until the legacy comes to an end with me. At first this transmittendum had a price. In '32 a Divinity student, who had purchased the mat for a dollar and a half, parted with it, "at a great sacrifice, and because he wanted it to keep with the room," for, two dollars. It was not till eight years afterwards that it ceased to have any mercenary connections, and became a regular transmittendum, and from that time to this it has been priceless...
...this time of year, when the probabilities for the day are falling temperature, snow, and hour-examinations, I am much struck with the altered demeanor of my classmates (I am in the latter half of my course, but will not commit myself so far as to say that I am a Junior), - with their altered demeanor, I say, in regard to those little soirees in U. E. R. compared with the nervous dread with which they anticipated their first examinations within these sacred walls. Now they merely express astonishment at the old-fashioned notions of a professor, who, wishing...
...attempts at an arrangement of the difficulties under which the Senior class have been laboring are now definitely abandoned. The half the class dissatisfied with the principles on which the other half ran the meeting of the class now recognize, after painful experience, the fact that arguments are of no avail. The next step in the matter will be taken by those who support the officers elect, who will fill the vacant offices from their own ranks. The rest of the class - whether that be a majority or a minority is not now known - will then probably take some independent...
...challenge is to be sent to the Yale Freshman for a race to be rowed on the same day and at the same place as the University race, and in case this challenge is accepted, the candidates will leave the College gymnasium, where they are now at work from half after four until half after five each afternoon, for the boat-house gymnasium. The candidates run three nights in the week...