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Word: reaches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...talkers invariably arrive late and their seats are always far from the door. They are seen beyond a doubt (if they desire that), but unfortunately they are heard too. In time they reach their seats, there is a pause for a moment and then the conversation begins. The range it takes is wide: one morning the freshman crew, the glee club, the banjo club, theatres, sport in general and the triumphs of one of the speakers in society, were discussed in the compass of forty minutes. At the last topic the talkers usually stop and for the ten minutes that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 1/7/1887 | See Source »

...attained this intellectual height (the "ignoble vulgar" as it were), they altogether for, get that we should like to hear the instructor's words, even though we lose the pleasure and profit of our friends' conversation. Let them not scorn us but pity us and aid us to reach their intellectual eminence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 1/7/1887 | See Source »

...handle an article of domestic use that recommends itself to every one at sight. Sample as flour. Sells like hot cakes. Profits 300 per cent. Families wishing to practice economy should for their own benefit write for particulars. Used every day the year round in every household. Price within reach of all. Circulars free. Agents receive sample free. Address, Domestic Manufacturing Company, Marion, Ohio...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/6/1887 | See Source »

...elective studies as that which has been adopted at Harvard one of the greatest needs must be the development and perfection of some systematic method of guiding and helping the students in their choice of studies in accordance with sound principles. The object, no doubt, should be to reach the choice in each case that the student himself would make, supposing him to be endowed with the knowledge and judgment of his own case which the elective system presupposes. - N. Y. Times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Criticism of Harvard. | 1/5/1887 | See Source »

...handle an article of domestic use that recommends itself to every one at sight. Sample as flour. Sells like hot cakes. Profits 300 per cent. Families wishing to practice economy should for their own benefit write for particulars. Used every day the year round in every household. Price within reach of all. Circulars free. Agents receive sample free. Address, Domestic Manufacturing Company, Marion, Ohio...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notices. | 1/5/1887 | See Source »

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