Word: recently
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recent 250th anniversary at Exeter, free wine and beer flowed in the streets, and by a special act of the town council no arrests were made for drunkenness...
...examination paper in English A yesterday contained an editorial taken from a recent CRIMSON. It was given as a specimen of good English...
...recent editorial in the Boston Advertiser upon the system of voluntary attendance at religious services, the writer, after giving a brief history of the experiment at Harvard and after quoting testimony given by Professor Peabody in the Monthly and by Rev. D. N. Beach in the June Andover Review, showing the full success of the experiment, adds this conclusion: "The testimony of these exceptionally competent witnesses confirms the evidence which comes from many other sources, and it is to this effect. The attendance, although voluntary, has been good. The vesper services have been thronged. There never was more religious life...
...altogether. Howells has made a formula and swallowed it, and it has stuck to him. James looks at the world instead of a swinging black ball of geometrical proportions. Still, I think Howells will change his ideas. He seems too clever a man to stick to them. The recent discoveries regarding the Russian school of novelists has set England to noting them very widely. I am very much taken up with them. Tolstoi is extraordinary; he is wonderful; but I think the old man has actually gone daft, for it is in credible that any one could hold such paradoxes...
Professor John K. Paine achieved a great success at the recent Cincinnati May festival in the production of his new cantata, "A Song of Promise." Theodore Thomas says concerning this composition: "There is no living composer who can produce such a work, not even Rubenstein...