Word: space
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...elements combined against us; for on one occasion the eclipse of the moon had such an effect on the tide as to leave the harbor a mass of mud at the time appointed for sailing; and on another, a storm threatening, our prudent skipper would not put to sea. Space fails me to relate how, balked in all our plans of sport, the party at length resorted to the Harvard amusement of billiards and pool, and, returning through the town to their hotel, regaled the Plymouthites with "Maid of Athens" and "Mulligan Guards," and were surrounded by a strong posse...
...progress of the world, that the delusion ceases, and we begin to regard our life in its true relations to what has gone before and is to come. Whatever may be our philosophy or religious belief, the fact of the dissolution of the body at the end of a space of time which is as nothing to the eternity which has preceded and will succeed it is one of supreme import, which, as rational creatures, we must take into account in forming any belief...
...very strange and very sad that the class of '74 should so soon lose two comrades from their ranks, and that within the space of twenty-four hours. On Monday last Nicholas Reed died in Boston, far from his home and from his only living parent, but, as his classmates will be very glad to remember, surrounded by kind friends, and in the presence of one who, in the time of his fatal illness, had acquired the best right to be his chief consoler...
...space in your paper to submit, in accordance with the constitution of the H. U. B. C., the following report and estimate of the expenses of the Club for the coming year...
...foot-races were postponed till Monday, when the programme was successfully carried through. The following summary is all that we have space...