Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...headway. In the 17th century a book was published purporting to translate an inscription on one of the tombs, but the translations were entirely false as every figure was thought to represent an idea, while some of them are only letters. The first part of the 18th century saw much time uselessly wasted, but in the latter part great progress was made and the final stroke was given by the discovery of the famous Rosetta Stone in 1799, which had an inscription in three languages, the Egyptian, Grecian, and Demotic. By means of the Greek, the other characters were easily...
Bowing before the Divine Power which saw fit to remove him thus early from our midst, we most earnestly desire to extend our heartfelt sympathy to his family in this their great bereavement...
...must be but a poor player, who cannot hit such a ball; and though if he is careless about it, he may readily hit a catch, yet with a moderate amount of care he can hit a full-pitched ball not only easily, but safely. Now the English cricketers saw none but full-pitched balls thrown in the base-ball game they were watching, and yet to their astonishment quite a considerable proportion of these balls were missed! Here were the members of two trained teams, missing again and again a kind of ball which an English schoolboy would...
...college at large was not only surprised but greatly elated over the victory which the nine won last Wednesday, and there is no lack of confidence that they will win again on the twenty fifth. Nevertheless it is undoubtedly true that every one would feel better if they saw the nine playing regular games every...
...condition of our nine at present is anything but an enviable one. The truth of the old saw that misfortunes never come singly is now only too apparent to the Columbia College Base-Ball Association. Columbia no longer holds her own in the College League, having finally, and irrevocably, severed her connection with it by resigning. There seemed to the management no other course to pursue under the circumstances, considering the generally demoralized condition of the men on the nine and the impracticability of attempting to get together a nine from the men still remaining about college...