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Word: tracing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...that subject, last June (for Greek is my strong point), and was expecting to see "Good in Greek" on my entrance certificate. I was, therefore, much taken aback when I was informed that my paper had not been found, and that I was, consequently, conditioned; I managed to trace the paper into the hands of the examiner, who had evidently lost it, but the Faculty insisted on punishing me for his fault. I should not trespass on your space if mine were the only case of the sort, but I find that many others have suffered in the same...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 10/11/1878 | See Source »

...southern skies have caught a trace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AURORA BOREALIS. | 6/1/1877 | See Source »

Chaldean tablets trace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A FAIR ELECTION. | 5/18/1877 | See Source »

...impossible to trace in these figures the operation of any rule connecting scholarship with the more or less free use of the privilege in question. Upon the whole, then, the fair deduction from the returns of last year, whether they are examined with respect to average results, or with an inquiry into individual cases, appears to me to be the same which was drawn by my predecessor from the first year's trial of the system of voluntary attendance, - that the influence of the system on the general scholarship of the class, so far as it is exhibited...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESIDENT'S REPORT. | 1/12/1877 | See Source »

...Then she said in a pet, 'You may trace your lore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 12/4/1876 | See Source »

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