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Word: third (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...This patching is quite legitimate, and we wish all the rest were similarly constructed. The fourth and fifth lines also are correct, metrically; but esuries is a terribly rare and unpoetical word. In line second, opibus has the o short, so it cannot begin a hexameter. In line third, the perfect of fundo is not fusi, and the line is very jerky. Risit would have scanned as well, and suited the other tenses better. In line sixth, coronae cannot begin a hexameter, nor comam end one; moreover, cutting off a diphthong between the two short syllables of a dactyl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYING WITH EDGED TOOLS. | 5/4/1877 | See Source »

...money, and encourages rowing inasmuch as it gives every one who has subscribed ten dollars to the University crew an opportunity to row, while at the same time the number who actually row would not be in creased enough to make the boats crowded. A seat for every third or fourth man could be provided easily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A UNIVERSITY BOAT-CLUB. | 4/20/1877 | See Source »

...appear to them that such music has a kinship with lolling out of the window and addressing the dispenser of familiar airs in terms of slang - or, possibly, the authorities may deem it improper that "the shining cent" should be flipped from such an elevation as the second or third story. Whatever the trivial reason may be, certain it is, that although the College gates are closed but once in twenty years, yet the vender of melodies rarely ventures through them, conscious that in whatsoever remote corner he may establish himself, the venerable Ubiquity will invite him to depart thence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ORGAN-GRINDER. | 4/20/1877 | See Source »

...COMPARISON of the number of volumes in some of the largest libraries of the country shows the Harvard Library to be the third. The following are the figures: Library of Congress, 300,000; Boston Public Library, 299,869; Harvard, 227,650; Mercantile Library of New York, 160,613; Astor Library, 152,446; and Yale College Library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 4/6/1877 | See Source »

Medals will be given to first, second, and third in each game, excepting in tug of war, where a medal will be given to each member of the winning team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW YORK ATHLETIC CLUB. | 4/6/1877 | See Source »

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