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Word: sheet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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Although the college jester may have applied Motley's phrase, "a sheet of infinite platitude," to some of the recent numbers of the Advocate,-and what magazine does not have its gay and its dull days?- certain it is that good old mother Advocate has succeeded in hammering several "golden grains of wit" into the issue of her estimable paper which appears today. It is one of the best of the numbers of this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 3/31/1891 | See Source »

...cone is weighted to float just below the surface, and from the cone a string runs to the measuring machine. It is fastened to a bar of metal, at the other end of which there is a pencil. The pencil is constantly leaving a a mark on a sheet of paper moved by clock work. At every stroke the rush of water against the cone causes the pencil to make a sharp deflection in the course it is tracing on the paper. In this way a record is kept of every stroke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A New Rowing Apparatus. | 2/20/1891 | See Source »

...good stock of Sheet Music, Musical Instruments, Strings, etc., constantly on hand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notices. | 10/30/1890 | See Source »

...good stock of Sheet Music, Musical Instruments, Strings, etc., constantly on hand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notices. | 10/28/1890 | See Source »

...good stock of Sheet Music, Musical Instruments, Strings, etc., constantly on hand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notices. | 10/25/1890 | See Source »

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