Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bailed out she shipped another. The boys realizing their danger probably attempted to reach shore. At this point she shipped more water than she could carry and she settled to the bottom of the ocean, stern foremost, carrying her small boat down with her. This was S.40 a. m. Sunday, August 12th. Hasty preparation had been made for such an emergency and some of the life preservers had been secured. I think that Mr. Hawkins was drowned at once and died without struggle. Probably the same is true of Mr. Bartlett. Leicester Sargent was undoubtedly at the wheel...
...HOMES OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR.It is one thing to teach good grammar, and another thing to speak it. The President of one of our New England colleges, in a lecture delivered in this city last Sunday, said : "Here then is the consequences in the worst possible form of it." And again : "Not only is this so manifested as that philosophers see it." He also spoke of India as "a province that is not profitable except there shall be the cultivation of opinion." He was probably in a condition similar to that of the actor who knew his part so well that...
Allowance for Sunday absence...
Allowance for Sunday absence...
...aware that the professor of rhetoric might take exception to this expression, as stilted and newspapery, but it is the stock phrase for beginning accounts of Sunday school picnics, and as the Yale-Harvard '81 game was an S. S. picnic of the first class, I feel that no other expression would be appropriate...