Word: likelihood
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Henry George, who was a passenger on the Alaska, and feared at one time that he would never again see any land to divide according to his principle of political economy, says that the "only thing that was any likelihood of running short in was lager beer," which would seem to show that great minds may descend to the consideration of small subjects, even in the midst of great perils...
...bill, which I paid, has been too much for me. I ought to have reserved it for the last. The reader must draw his own conclusions. If his janitor is like mine, then he will take pleasure in knowing that he is not the sole victim, that with greater likelihood the victims are legion, as many as the year has days, or as Harvard has students...
...freshmen, however, are not discouraged at the bold front which the Exeter men put on. They have done all they can as a preparation for their struggle and will start today with a determination to keep up the good record which they have faithfully earned. There is little likelihood that they will be troubled with overconfidence and they must not be troubled with despondency. The games which they have played have been well won and have given them ample opportunities to correct some of their faults. We hope the record of victories will remain unbroken and that...
...Cambridge and the raging and restive Ohioby many miles. Nevertheless we are threatened with considerable danger when the next thaw sets in, which probably will be immediately. Every one knows what the danger is here, continual rivulets throughout the yard through which all have to wade and a likelihood that severe colds will be the result. It is perhaps too late for any permanent remedy to be made this year, but during the coming summer some radical changes in the system of drainage should be effected so that the season of 1884-5 may see the yard in a little...
...might be induced to give some little time and a little thought to his studies. At any event, there would in this method be an absence of that wild excitement under which most of the injurious effects of athletic sports are brought about, and there would be less likelihood that the student would sprain his ankle, break his arm, or crack his skull...