Word: lurking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...theory of the potential, a very Archimedes, with formulas enough to reconstruct a universe,- stalked fearlessly in the wake of the white robed angel! He remembers no more; but this bare glimpse of the products of his busy brain will serve to show something of the possibilities that lurk within it. The very evening of the day on which this dream was told to me, I slept, and could conjure up no more stirring puppets with which to amuse myself, than two or three Quakers with their broad-brimmed hats, and not even one that wore a bonnet; and there...
...Yale, owing to the recent deaths of persons connected with the college from typhoid fever. These seem to be reviving the general feeling of uneasiness which existed at the time of the Princeton scare. It does not seem possinle that any remediable cause of disease could be allowed to lurk in any of their college buildings...