Word: modus
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...contributions of other scholars will not be absolutely excluded. The first volume will be issued some time this month and will contain about two hundred pages. The contents of the first number will be as follows: The Fauces of the Roman House, by James B. Greenough. De Ignis Eliciendi Modus apvd Antiqvos, scripsit Morris H. Morgan. On the Origin of the Construction of me with the Subjunctive and the Future Indicative, by William W. Goodwin. On some disputed Points in the Construction of edei, chren, etc., with the Infinitive, by William W. Goodwin. Notes on Quintilian, by George M. Lane...
...modus vivendi shows good will on the part of Canada and is advantageous...
...United States mail, or the columns of a daily paper, it matters little how they advertise themselves; and no reasoning man will deny that they have a legal and moral right to do this, and to advertise their trade in any way they see fit; - the taste of their modus operandi, must necessarily be left to them...
...accepted the situation: the girls' affections must be won, but how? A sight that had met our wandering gaze suggested the modus. Just in front of the girls, and consequently but two seats in front of us, there was one of those honest, real old-fashioned bald-heads, with about five hairs above each ear and all the rest a glittering expanse. Now, it has always been a theory of mine that if you can get a young lady to smile at what you say, you can soon get her to smile...
...will agree to connect University and the Agassiz Museum with a telephone, and lay down plank walks in the Yard. I have agreed to do this, and so the entrance to the tube will be at the Gymnasium, and the exit at the billiard-room of Parker's. The modus operandi is as follows: You sit inside of the tube on a seat like those of the rowing-machines, a wad is placed at your back, and at a given signal a Yale man kicks the wad, and you are pitched forward at a rate that will bring...