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Word: punctual (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...modern Casabianca, - our efficient and ever-punctual janitor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 1/28/1876 | See Source »

...more and more interesting. A new amplification is now introduced in the person of the handsome young clergyman, who is, evidently, about to cause a few ripples in the course of true love. "Jack," at present, is dead; but no experienced novel-reader can doubt the ability of that punctual young man to turn up at any moment. The number also contains a review of Mistral's Calendan, an article on the financial system of Texas, before the annexation, and an interesting account of Liszt, by one of his pupils. To say that the Atlantic is "as good as ever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exchanges. | 3/27/1874 | See Source »

...thank for the success of the enterprise at Springfield, conceived the idea of connecting the rooms of the different members of the Company with the College bell, by a wire between it and Thayer. From that time we can be sure that the telegraph operators were the most punctual students both at chapel and recitations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE "HARVARD TELEGRAPH CO." | 10/10/1873 | See Source »

...That, too, when the professor has acknowledged, on one occasion at least, that it was a matter of small importance. Not so much the good we derive from substituting a synonyme for the word we used before is considered, as the fact that this rule teaches us to be punctual. But why deductions are made from our rank, instead of demerits given to us for disobeying a college rule, is a puzzle. Then, too, a large amount is taken off, - a third of the maximum, some say, - for work which does not involve a third part of the labor requisite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/2/1873 | See Source »

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