Word: lated
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...week, so we are led to conclude that a decision has been reached, and that he is to occupy that position permanently. If this is not the case, we beg to suggest that too much valuable time is taken in making the choice. Two months before the regatta is late enough to find our crew settled upon and hard at work, and where the strokeship lies between three or four men, it is not supremely difficult to make a choice. We are sorry to miss Mr. Taylor on the crew. As an oar, he is undoubtedly faulty, but his strength...
...late years, and especially since the custom of a three-months summer vacation has existed, there has flourished in the conservatory of Harvard that gaudy, costly, and too-often-admired exotic, - the travelled...
...then, to say that all went well at Lexington but the President and the northwest-wind, - the latter failing to please because it did blow, and the former because he did n't, - but both seem to be unaccountable to any human authority. The President was two hours late in coming from Concord to Lexington, which interfered with the proposed order of ceremonies at the latter place; but, as far as success lay within the power of the town, so far success was most certainly attained. Our nation's President carried off his one great role of sphinx-like...
PUBLIC attention has of late been called to the gentleman who represents us at the Court of St. James, by the publication of a volume from his pen, discussing in a masterly manner the rules of Draw Poker. Many have thought such a work beneath the dignity of a United States Minister; and the frequency with which this dignity has been urged has revived the memory of an experience of my own which may not prove uninteresting...
...casei sit aut contra." His strongest argument was that the moon was a matter of square feet and inches, while it was impossible to cut in-ches out of cheese. Mr. Emerson wrote on "A Shabby Monarch, or Napoleon out at Elba." Mr. Gerrish's subject was, "Whirly and Late, or the Last Waltz" (whirly for early, you know, because you whirl when you dance). Mr. Peirce, of '76, was to have read an essay on "Water on the Brain, or a Notion (an Ocean) in the Head." There were others who seemed to be laboring under the difficulty...