Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...play represents the sudden awakening of a Harvard professor 2000 years in advance of his birth, and his futile efforts to regulate events in a fanciful country called Spontania, according to a history he has written. In his history he finds that the king is to marry on the following day, but can discover only the initials of the future queen. This leads to complications. Meanwhile, two neighboring old maids arrive with forged proposals of marriage and demand the king's hand. The professor also finds the king's son about to marry otherwise than his book prescribed, and tries...
...tennis courts on Jarvis Field have now been marked out and are ready for use. Yesterday afternoon the ground was still a little too soft for accurate judgment in taking swift drives, but use of the courts will remedy this. In case of a sudden freeze, which would stop the use of the courts, a notice will be posted in Leavitt's window...
...remembered in considering the future of the association that solid progress must come slowly. There is to be no sudden change in athletic affairs. Such an institution will grow into usefulness by a gradual process...
...sudden death so early in life has been a great shock not only to the members of his class, but to the whole body of Harvard graduates and undergraduates as well...
...Alward and Mr. Newell were men whose death comes as a heavy blow to the institution which they represented so often and so ably. Their personal friends and classmates who were fortunate in knowing them intimately must suffer most from the shocks of such a sudden bereavement, but a keen sense of loss extends to the many who knew of their manly qualities only by reputation...