Word: idea
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...idea, too, that this shaggy little quadruped of mine had a way of being in quite a number of different places in a very short space of time. To be sure, I had never paced him on a regular professional track, but it seemed to me that he was in the habit of marking off the prairies at a remarkably cheerful gait. In short, I looked upon him as quite a jewel in an equine way. So when I came eastward, about the first of September, I brought Ceph (Ceph is familiar for Bucephalus) along with me, and we settled...
...Rector (or President, as we say) himself, confident that he, at any rate, would know something about the matter. I accordingly ascertained his address and ventured a call, having carefully planned out beforehand a number of nice little speeches calculated to impress the old fellow with the idea that my knowledge of German was something phenomenal, a decided case of "supposition contrary to fact...
...courses which shall give him that general knowledge which he has rarely time to acquire after leaving. To be a broad and liberally educated man, one must know a little of everything, and some one thing well. If we undertake to shape our course through college with the idea of a specialty, and make every secondary study a direct companion to the main branch, we shall undoubtedly come out narrow-minded, pedantic scholars, who, prejudiced toward their own branches, know not enough of the branches of others to give them a charitable recognition. Many are the evils which arise from...
...late years the associate members of the Glee Club have ridiculed the idea of ever getting any pleasure from being members, except, perhaps, a glass of beer and a sandwich. In the future, the societies will endeavor to make the associate members feel that they are fortunate in obtaining an election...
...element when she could give information. "The great philosopher, Muag Big, to be sure," said she, "and his daughter. He is, they say, the greatest thinker alive. He has an idea that his daughter will be the mother of a great race, and he is looking for a young ape who shall be a fit husband for her. Is n't that a suffocatingly queer idea? I am going to see his daughter, Tue Swe, to-morrow; won't you go with...