Word: sir
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...miners' safety lamp, made by Sir Humphrey Davies, which was the first one ever used, is in the Boylston laboratory...
...Sir Edwin Arnold is to lecture at Wesleyan Jan. 25 in the Alpha Delta Phi course...
...enemies at almost every stage of its progress. Edward Third prohibited it in 1365, simply, however, because it interfered with his archery. Richard Second also stopped it, but later kings found it best not to. Its growing popularity was nevertheless disagreeable to many people and in the seventeenth century Sir Thomas Mildman writes: "In likewise foote ball is too utterly abjected of all noble men, wherein is nothing but beastlie furie and extreme violence, whereof procedeth hurte and consequently rancour and malice." The Puritans were the worst enemies of the game; one Stubbes in his "Anatomie of Abuses...
...Sir Leonard Telley, one of the Canadian representatives, was the guest of A. F. Ganoug of the Canadian Club, Wednesday afternoon...
...effort is being made by the Cornell authorities to have Sir Edwin Arnold deliver a lecture before the students of the University while he is in this country...