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Word: knows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...suggestion that heliotypes be substituted for the usual class photographs is at least worth considering. How far practicable it is to abandon photographs we do not know. It would certainly be a less bulky and less expensive method of obtaining views of buildings and the various groups. We commend the plan to the attention of the Senior class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 11/25/1881 | See Source »

...course, what was necessary for a German, but were completely at sea as to what was required of a foreigner. Finally, I determined to take the bull by the horns and go and see the 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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOW I MATRICULATED AT A GERMAN UNIVERSITY. | 11/25/1881 | See Source »

Every wise man's son doth know...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR FIRST FAMILIES. | 11/25/1881 | See Source »

...know," he said faintly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STORY OF LITTLE HENRY. | 11/11/1881 | See Source »

...never seen. He was wholly absorbed in the contemplation of many marvels, so that he did not see another genie approach and stand beside him, till the genie rang a little silver bell, enclosed in a wonderful pistol-shaped instrument of silver. "???" said the genie. "A ???." Henry did not know what to do, and therefore he drew the magic paper from his pocket; whereupon the genie cried out in a voice of thunder, "???" and vanished in smoke; and Henry felt himself suddenly snatched up and whirled through the air by an invisible force...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STORY OF LITTLE HENRY. | 11/11/1881 | See Source »

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