Word: longer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...would probably be became plainer every moment. The last of the line of iron posts stood exactly in front of the staring, awestruck couple. Six times I had swept round it like the breath of the wind; now, for the seventh time, I was approaching it. I could no longer control my machine. Straight towards the post it rushed. I could not leap from it; I could not stop its awful impetus. A doomed man, I was hurled onward to my fate. I closed my eyes, and thought of Appleton Chapel. Crash!! and in an instant I struck...
...belligerent Courant copies poetry from the Advocate, now that it no longer exchanges with the Acta. "Grand old Yale...
...last number the Advocate appeared in a new light; no longer as the staid, conservative mentor of the Harvard press, now crying out against an abuse already ended, and now giving a decided opinion on a question already settled. This character it has put off once for all. It is now the aggressive champion of the Bursar, New London, College Poetry, the Echo, and any other thing under the sun which has, or fancies it has, received a slight from the Crimson. We do not know how to reconcile ourselves to the new order of things. What...
...thing at all. We fear that our cotemporary has failed in the present instance to display "that firm grasp of the subject in hand, and that broad but minute knowledge of the grounds of discussion which generally characterize" its editorial articles. We shall hardly consider it worth while longer to occupy our columns with this futile dispute...
...could bear this no longer. Rising to my full height, I adjusted my left heel against my right calf. I cocked my eye, and held to it an imaginary eye-glass, Then with an air of tremendous importance I remarked...