Word: stores
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...established. It was while gathering information for them that he became acquainted with Cuvier, whose teachings had great influence over him, and also with Humboldt, to whose apartments he was always welcome, and to whose library he had free access. He greatly profited by this privilege, as his own store of books was but a scanty...
...describe Professor Agassiz's scientific labors since his arrival in this country is wellnigh impossible: he was always ready to lecture, sent valuable contributions to magazines, read instructive papers before scientific associations, was busy in the laboratory, observed and tried to solve the secrets of nature, gathered an immense store of specimens, undertook the publication of works requiring an almost incredible amount of labor for completion, and, in short, attempted more work than ten ordinary men could accomplish. Among his published works may be mentioned "Twelve Lectures on Comparative Embryology," "Systeme Glaceale," "Lake Superior," "The Structure of Animal Life...
...many luckless Harvard men are there who have promenaded that seemingly endless street in Springfield in the almost hopeless search for a bit of magenta ribbon! "None," "Not any," "Don't keep it," were the answers from those scores of dry-goods stores. Can any good come out of Springfield? In the best-looking store of all, in answer to inquiries, some pink ribbon was produced, some scarlet, some maroon, some purple braid! and finally, - last hair which broke, etc., - "Would n't some of this red tape do?" Were we the victims of a prodigious joke? We made...
...different professions in England, etc. The anecdotes and stories about distinguished persons, of which Mr. Arnold appears to possess an unfailing supply, are certainly the newest things in the book, and, perhaps, the best. They relate to men of all times and nations, and contain in themselves a vast store of curious, amusing, and suggestive literary information...
...arrow failed to bring its forest store...