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Word: storming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...account of the storm only a fair audience gathered last evening to hear the last of the series of lectures on Assyria Archaeology. The subject of the lecture was the influence of Assyrian and Babylonia on the art of the surrounding nations, and the effect felt to some extent by these countries themselves from their intercourse with other countries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prof. Frothingham Lecture. | 1/27/1887 | See Source »

...estimated that three feet of snow and four and a half feet of slush have fallen in Cambridge since the first snow storm in December...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/17/1887 | See Source »

...seems to me that the college authorities are a little too parsimonius in the matter of lighting the college yard and buildings. Every evening that the moon is expected to appear, the lamps in the yard are left unlit. Now it very frequently happens that a rain or snow storm comes up, when the moon is entirely hidden, and the belated wanderer is left to feel his way through the slush or mud in the yard as best he may, trusting to the gods for guidance. In a college like Harvard it is nothing less than disgraceful that such...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/15/1887 | See Source »

...spite of the storm the attendance at the Vesper service yesterday was almost as large as usual. The following selections were sung: "How Beautiful upon the Mountains," by R. A. Smith; "The King of Love My Shepherd Is," by Shelley; "O God, Who Hast Prepared," by A. R. Gaul. Number three was substituted for a solo by Mr. Langmaid, who was unable to be present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/17/1886 | See Source »

...HORTON, Pres.HARVARD SHOOTING CLUB. The meeting which would come to morrow is postponed to Tuesday on account of the storm. It is the last shoot in the present series of matches, and as it will be the last regular meeting till after the "semis," all ties must be shot off on that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notices. | 12/17/1886 | See Source »

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