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Word: learning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...machines of as good quality as the English at less than half the cost. In this connection we wish to correct an error which appeared in our last issue. It was there stated that after arriving at Squantum the Boston club returned home by rail. We are glad to learn that the club completed the entire journey on their machines, thus proving that their endurance and energy are equal to their skill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BICYCLING. | 5/3/1878 | See Source »

...regret to learn that in the last inning of the Live Oak game Mr. Ernst stretched the short head of the biceps muscle in his right leg, and trust that the injury may not prove more than a temporary lameness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 4/19/1878 | See Source »

...parlor when my tormentor took a seat beside me, and gave me directions about playing my hand. I remonstrated with him, but to no purpose; he assured me, with the utmost candor, that his mamma liked to have him look over people's hands so as to learn how to play, and his father liked to have him watch and see who did the cheating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES." | 4/5/1878 | See Source »

...learn at home as well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SATIRE. | 3/22/1878 | See Source »

...OEstrus, from California, seems to have rather a blunt sting; it is filled with those primitive and exceedingly personal "grinds," which are found only in very youthful and very Western papers, and in a contemporary from Connecticut, which we need not mention more explicitly. We learn from the OEstrus that California colleges are like our own, in some respects at least. There, as here, the editors have to write the papers; there, as here, athletics are neglected, and so on through the list of grievances. For purity of style and refinement of taste, we commend this item...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 2/23/1878 | See Source »

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