Word: moment
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Seem crystal grottos in a moment riven...
...uninitiated may imagine, an irreparable injury to the College or undergraduates to ??? a few hours of recitations. This is not a primary school, where the master must stand over his pupils to see that they employ every moment of their time...
...ransacking our minds to no purpose for historical facts with which we were once perfectly familiar, and of which it is even a positive disgrace to be ignorant! A "Dictionary of Familiar Quotations" is no substitute for words which we wish to recall on the spur of the moment, and for which memory alone should serve...
...buildings two bedrooms to a study lessen the inconveniences that used to exist, yet they all are by no means done away with. Unless a man retires to his bedroom, and such an action is an invitation to his friends to leave, he is never sure of a moment in which to study uninterruptedly. At Vassar they are so unmannerly as to do this; it is, in fact, rendered almost unavoidable by the huddling of five young lady chums into one study-room. To the studious, this system of chumming does more injury than the most earnest efforts...
...present moment there are teachers nearly everywhere, except perhaps in some secluded districts in the mountains of Auvergne or in Lower Brittany. I maintain, therefore, that it is not in the number of teachers that we are deficient. And yet we are in reality behind the other nations in matters of education. Whence does this arise? There are several reasons. In the first place, the children are not sent to school, or are taken away too young. Every commune, as I told you, pays its own teacher. It gives him a fixed salary, varying between four hundred and eight hundred...