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...fourth book ever printed with a date, is part of the fifteen the century collection of J. M. Hunnewell '01. The colophon, or final paragraph of the book, usually containing the place and date of publication, printer's name and so forth, gives a history of the origin of printing. It is this colophon which points to Gutenberg as the printer. The book came from a press believed to have been started by Gutenberg in opposition to the printers Fust and Schoeffer, who got Gutenbergs' original press...
...expedition. Between 1910 and the appearance of "Galleons Reach" Tomlinson wrote "Old Junk", "London River", "Waiting for Daylight", "Under the Red Ensign", and "Gifts of Fortune". Many of these were written Dicken's wise,--as sketches which Tomlinson prepared as a journalist for weekly publication. Such is the reputed origin of "Old Junk" and "Waiting for Daylight...
...keep alive the veneration for Italy as our country of origin and as the eternal light of civilization and greatness...
...charge made on behalf of Seņor Blasco Ibaņez was that "with the exception of a few petty professors from the grammar schools, all the Ministerial posts are filled by generals." To this assertion the Ambassador countered by giving a complete list of the present Cabinet with the origin and profession of each member. Snappishly he concluded: "Total, nine Ministers, of whom three are generals [Primo de Rivera, Duke of Tetuan, Martinez Anido], and no one of them is a professor from the grammar schools...
...dormitory and general college hall until the Revolution, it was taken over for a time by the invading British soldiers, who quartered first themselves and then their horses in its rooms. It has been suggested that the parietal regulation regarding the keeping of animals in college rooms and its origin in the observed results of this latter practice...