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Word: smallest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...everybody will be satisfied. I forgot to state that the price of the regulation suits is fixed at sixty dollars for the largest, fifty-five for the next, and so on. It has been suggested that a tall man who wishes to economize can do so by wearing the smallest suit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A NEW SCHEME. | 11/7/1879 | See Source »

DURING the past year the cost of instruction at Harvard has been so much discussed that the President has been to some trouble to get at an accurate statement of college expenses. As the result of a large number of inquiries, he found that the smallest annual expenditure was $471, and the largest $2,500. Since this wide range of expenditure gave insufficient data from which to make fair estimates, the President has prepared a table to exhibit four scales of annual expenditure. This table is restricted to the nine months of college life, and is, we think, a very...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESIDENT'S REPORT. | 1/11/1878 | See Source »

...smallest rooms in University should be assigned to two of the most largely attended courses in College is a question that three times a week presents itself to those who elect Latin 8 or Latin 9. Where fifty men are packed into a room of the size of U. 24, the amount of fresh air left at the end of ten minutes for each man to breathe is barely sufficient to support life, and under such trying circumstances even Tacitus grows commonplace and Plautus prosy. The substitution of a room as large as U. 16 would be hailed with rejoicing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/9/1877 | See Source »

Talk us the smallest of talk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADVICE TO GIRLS. | 10/15/1875 | See Source »

...majority of the House is very conservative, yet motions have been passed approving of the faithful services of Mr. Gladstone to his country, and condemning the conservatives in regard to their policy in the case of the endowed schools. It may be interesting to you to know that the smallest conservative majority on a question of politics was thirteen, and that on the question of Mr. Gladstone's programme at the time of the late dissolution. A motion in favor of cremation was passed by a large majority, whilst a motion against marriage with a deceased wife's sister...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGLISH SOCIETIES. | 4/9/1875 | See Source »

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