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Word: seene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
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...star is a very prominent one now and its position can be easily described: It can be seen at about seven or eight in the evening by looking overhead at the brighest star in the zenith and following with the eye about one quarter of the area from that star to the western horizon. The distinguishing points are that it is very bright and is almost exactly in the centre of a triangle of three other stars. More specifically--following along that part of the Fence running from the Co-operative to Massachusetts--if one stands by the first post...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The New Star. | 2/25/1901 | See Source »

...Visits, 1463 Office consultations, 1886 Total number of consultations, 3349 Calls on students not found in (not included in above) 412 Cases not seen by Medical Visitor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Statistics of Illness in the University for the Year, 1899-1900. | 2/1/1901 | See Source »

...plot deals with the adventures of Leif Ericsson in his voyage to North America in the year 1000. The first act is laid Norway in that year. Biarna returns from his trip to the westward and his vivid description of the strange, new region he has seen causes Leif to set sail on a similar voyage of discovery. History is followed exactly and the costumes, designed by the Norwegian artist Born, are true to the life of that period in Norway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pi Eta Play, "The Viking." | 1/28/1901 | See Source »

...against declining tariff duties, or insistently demand internal improvements, or try to tear down the subtreasurers and clamor for a bank, it could not be said that there was any irrepressible conflict of any industrial sort. So far, then, as hindsight avails, the Southerners in 1850 could not have seen any threat to their civilization from specific material interests in the North. It was the North's moral awakening and not its industrial alertness, its free thought and not its free labor which the Southern planters had to fear. We can not, however, see what actually happened unless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lecture on the Lower South. | 12/15/1900 | See Source »

Professor Wendell's book is, first of all, historical. It is the history of America seen through its literary temperament. According to the scheme of the book, the literary history of each century is prefaced by an actual chronicle of the chief historical events. The author's main purpose is to show how American literature differentiates itself from English. The American temperament in regarded as growing more and more distant from the English up to the eighteenth century; accordingly, the most distinctive American expression is in the first half of the nineteenth century. Since then, in the last fifty years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Literary History of America." | 12/3/1900 | See Source »

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