Word: misses
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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RHETORIC, Whately's Rhetoric to the end of Part 2, including Preface, Introduction, and Appendices; Lessing's Laocoon (in the original or in Miss Frothingham's translation), Preface and Chapters 13 - 26 inclusive...
...ready and decided judgment; his progress, therefore, in this, as in all that he undertook, was of the most thorough and promising kind. But conspicuous as he was for mental ability, it is in the private relations of friendship that his loss will be most felt. His friends will miss one who was warm-hearted, loyal, and generous to a fault; one whose character, far above the suspicion of anything mean or paltry, was yet tempered with so much modesty as to render it obtrusive to no one; one who never hesitated to express his strict and conscientious sentiments...
SCENE, German Class. PROFESSOR (to a '78 Miss). What does enthaupten mean? '78 Miss. It means to behead a person. PROFESSOR. Then what does behaupten mean? '78 Miss. I should think that meant to put a head on him. - Cornell...
...lady once complained to him that her coffee was too sweet. He responded, with great gallantry, "Very naturally, Miss - , since it passes your lips ere it reaches your tongue...
...conversation at the club where they talk metaphysics turned on the affections. Spake a Senior: "What do you know about love, Miss H.? Do you believe there is any such thing as love?" "O," says she, "you come around to my room some time, Mr. B., and we'll talk it over." - Michigan University Chronicle...