Word: nineteenth
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English had no delusions about his quarry being overhead; his aiming procedure was among the best of nineteenth century dueling practices--the so-called delope. The act of firing into the air was simply a semi-honorable way of announcing "I'm scared to death, couldn't we possibly call this thing off?" English at last perceived, however, that Foster's honor would not be satisfied without being fired upon. Consequently, on the third exchange English levelled his bead and pulled the trigger. Foster fell dramatically to the ground, and English, thinking his opponent dead or wounded, left the field...
...Committee stated that it is "of the belief that the Ph.D. degree, as a creation of the nineteenth century, does not historically have a true claim to the Latin tongue...
Ever since Plato, scholars have been baffled by a seemingly closed mystery: Where did the alphabet come from? The Greeks thought that the Phoenicians had learned it in Egypt and that "because they navigated the sea, brought it to Greece." Nineteenth-century scholars, in pensive afterthought, decided that the Semites developed the alphabet from certain cursive characters that the Egyptians had evolved from their own hieroglyphs. Later, other scholars began to discover certain signs that predated hieroglyphs -a series of trademarks, potters' signs, pawnbrokers' labels, and masons' marks that may have spread from trader to trader...
Harvard Hall was comparatively peaceful during the nineteenth century when it was host to lectures, exhibitions, and Commencement dinners. But once a year seniors recalled the old times when they entertained incoming freshmen with their knowledge and punch. According to James Russell Lowell, a "foreign admixture" overpowered whatever water might have been in the drinks, and "serious disorders resulted...
...scholarly Odysseus struck out of an experimental study of America history, literature, and philosophy. "I wanted to start at the beginning," he says, "and I didn't get any further for a long time." It is no wonder that he is just now getting to his chief interest-the nineteenth century-for he spent years reading every available Puritan sermon...