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Word: power (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...seventy-nine has seen took place in their Freshman year. Is it to be supposed that they will exert themselves to restore ceremonies which, provided they were treated in the canonical manner, they can only connect with a severe course of snubbing? With the present Senior class lies the power of killing or perpetuating Class Day, and may wisdom guide them in their action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN ENTIRE CLASS-DAY. | 10/12/1877 | See Source »

...Aurora Borealis was the motive-power of the Junior Telegraph Co., the other night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT OTHER COLLEGES. | 6/15/1877 | See Source »

...translated under the title Sidonie). Charles de Bernard deserves not to be forgotten. The volume entitled Le Noeud gordien contains several of his stories. Ferdinand Fabre has devoted himself to what might be called the novel of clerical life in France. L'Abbe Tigrane is a work of great power. It will carry the ordinary reader into a world entirely new to him. In addition to the titles I gave last year I ought also to add: Erckmann-Chatrian, L'Ami Fritz; Droz, Les Etangs; Mery, La Guerre de Nizam; and Sue, L'Orgueil...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRENCH SUMMER READING. | 6/1/1877 | See Source »

...other without some rest. Still the time that intervened between two successive races was, in nearly every case, unnecessarily long. We should like to call the attention of the several captains to this point in the races to-day; as we feel sure they have it in their power to expedite the getting ready of their crews, thereby securing more comfort to the spectators and satisfaction to themselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/18/1877 | See Source »

...tenses better. In line sixth, coronae cannot begin a hexameter, nor comam end one; moreover, cutting off a diphthong between the two short syllables of a dactyl is very unclassical. Of line seventh we can make nothing at all. The quantities run ____V ____V ____V ____VV ____, which no human power can get into a verse. But we strongly doubt if the translator knew that the em in falcem would go out before et, since line eight can only be scanned at all by keeping am in maturam before ab. In the same line, quo, though not positively wrong, should...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYING WITH EDGED TOOLS. | 5/4/1877 | See Source »

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