Word: surer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...least in former years, has produced more writing men than her practical and sturdy rival. It was the custom of the elder sort to carry their literary wares to the market town adjacent. The new generation, however, with the keen instinct of youth, perceives that a broader life, a surer market, a more various intellectual growth, are to be gained in the national metropolis. Harvard men are thronging in the ranks of the learned professions here, and only the briefest residence is needed to make them typical (i. e., cosmopolitan) New Yorkers. The staff of the new comic journal, Life...
...with a will to the labor of clearing the entire field and benches of snow. This, it should be remembered, was a labor purely voluntary on their part and performed without reluctance. The same instance affords another moral equally pleasant. The eleven could have received in no other way surer evidence of the enthusiastic support of the college. This assurance can indeed but be gratifying...