Word: half
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...President Gilman, of Johns Hopkins University, has bought nearly half the collection of French books exhibited at the Centennial by a well-known Paris firm...
...game was for two three quarters of an hour, and during all of that time Yale did not get the ball past our half-backs. Yale appeared to be rather weak in passing the ball, and not thoroughly acquainted with the rules, but nevertheless made some fine plays...
...University Foot-Ball Team leave for New Haven to-day at one o'clock. W. E. Russell will be umpire. The kickers are: Faucon, '75, Wetherbee, '78, Backs; Herrick, '77, Curtis, '77, Seamans, '77, Austin, '79, Half-backs; Rollins, '77, Cushing, '77, Cushing, '79, Keys, '77, Blanchard, '79, Forwards; Houston, '79. Jordan, '77, Substitutes. The Rugby Union game will be played...
...humor. Besides, the argument about seeking your friends when you want them works both ways. If your chum cannot be induced to let you be oblivious of his presence, - and one who will not should, I admit, be avoided, - it is still possible to avoid his company. Even here, half-deafened, if I choose to listen, by the noise that fills the room, - for the Sophomores at the next table are getting exceedingly uproarious, - I am alone, "enclosed in a tumultuous privacy of" - smoke...
...wonder therefore that those who arrange for us such matters as marks, degrees, etc., have called something to their aid which is perfectly definite. It is easy to say that this man has given so many hours to this subject while another has devoted to the same thing either half the time or twice the time. The question I want to ask is whether it follows as a logical conclusion that in the former case the second man has learned but half as much as the first, and, in the other case, twice as much...