Word: length
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Acta has published several papers on "Intercollegiate Slang," which are the most interesting contributions that we have seen in a college paper for some time. They will be finished next week, when we hope to speak of them at greater length...
...Apart from these considerations, the advance of the College in other ways should be marked by an abandonment of the old high-school notion that the shorter the vacations the larger the amount of knowledge gained, and by a recognition of the principle that by vacations of a suitable length the minds of all members of the College are so invigorated that the work done is better than it otherwise would be. While gratified by the present extension, then, we trust it may be made permanent...
...Juniors shall, in addition, wear side whiskers, at least two inches in length. They will be measured twice a year, free of charge, by the college authorities...
...seen in the account of the arrangement of the "reception-room." This room is twenty-eight feet long, and contains sleeping accommodations for forty. Thus each artist must rest from his professional labors in a space about eight inches in breadth by eight and one half feet in length. They must be very unlike the dog in the riddle, who was let out at night and taken in in the morning...
...been pulling 36. Opposite Regatta Point, an eighth of a mile from the start, Goddard's supporters began to call on him for a spurt, and he responded with a slightly more rapid stroke, and began to draw away from his rival, whom he led by a length and a half at the quarter-mile stake...