Word: passe
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...visit. Out of doors the preparation of the various plants for winter and the setting-out of bulbs for next year's bloom is now progressing. Within the conservatories where the winter plants are just beginning to bloom, and where one may, as far as plants are concerned, pass through all the zones in a few moments, the sight is a beautiful one and worth seeing...
...Harvard Advocate is to represent the sentiment and the highest thought of the student body of this University, an earnest criticism of what appears in its columns may not be out of place. I believe that the leader in the Advocate of October 20 should not be allowed to pass without a word of protest...
...morning the backs were on Holmes Field and were coached in punting by Wrightington and Waters. Wrenn gave all his attention to Dibblee, coaching him in the long pass for a kick. In the afternoon Sears and Wrenn gave a talk to the squad in the athletic building and afterwards joined in the coaching on the field. Most of the attention was given to the first eleven, which lined up as follows: Left end, Lewis; left tackle, Sargent; left guard, Bouve; center, F. Shaw; right guard, Jaffray; right tackle, Haughton; right end, Moulton; quarter back, Beale and Cochrane; right halfback...
...would be for the best interests of Sound Money Democracy, (A) While maintaining the principles of sound money by electing McKinley, the Gold Democrats could still effectively oppose McKinley's tariff policy. (1) In the few remaining months of the present Congress no general tariff act could pass (Harper's Weekly, Aug. 12, '96). (2) The next Congress which convenes Dec., '97, might, if an energetic campaign were made, be controlled by those who favor a moderate tariff, (Harper's Weekly, Aug. 12, '96). (B) The opposition of the Gold Democrats to high protective tariff would be more effective...
...historical period. The traveller Pausanias visited them in the second century, A. D., and his description might well have been written in the first half of the present century, so exactly does it describe their condition before Schliemann and the Greek Archaelogical Society began their excavations. Today one may pass through the great gateways into the courts and halls of the palaces that were seats of royal residence in the time of Homer, and recognize their original splendor even in their ruins...