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Word: return (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...drinking of vile whiskey, and the smoking of worse tobacco. One accomplishment they have, however, - a wonderful skill in poling. One man stands in the bow, and one in the stern, and with marvelous dexterity they push their crank barks up a very rapid current, and on their return let it slowly glide down stream, avoiding the rocks. Our course now is up the stream, we on the bank, and the guides in the canoes with the baggage. At times, however, the advance along the bank is impracticable, and then we take to the canoes; and our advice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SALMON FISHING. | 6/5/1874 | See Source »

MEMBERS of the Institute having books out of the library are requested to return them as soon as possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 5/22/1874 | See Source »

...return for his loyal deeds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A TALE OF MONTEFIASCONE.* | 5/8/1874 | See Source »

...time-warped floor, and the crowd is hurrying to evening Commons. I am afraid I have but feebly expressed my regard for my old room; but do not some of you feel the same liking for your temporary homes? I feel sure that I shall always like to return to mine, and I intend to exert my influence towards holding the Commencement meetings of our Class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO. 43. | 5/8/1874 | See Source »

...President Eliot's return from England it is expected that many minor changes will be introduced in the College, and, perhaps, several of greater moment. These novelties will be modelled, it is to be presumed, on the present systems in vogue at Oxford and at Cambridge, as the chief object of the President's visit to England was to study these systems. To those of us who are of conservative proclivities, the expectation of any changes whatever is, to say the least, disquieting; but when the new regulations are to be copied from the English systems, the prospect is decidedly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/8/1874 | See Source »

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