Word: true
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...team, but should such a prize be offered, it would tend to increase the interest in foot-ball, and the team winning the year's championship would have, for twelve months at least, a very substantial reminder of their prowess. We sincerely hope that the report is true...
Then he grew confidential, and talked about the mistakes he 'd made when he was a Freshman, and what he had undergone when he was being initiated for the Institute. Wonderful tales, and I hope true...
...Leander stout and true...
...will only force him to cram these subjects till he knows them by heart. Such an examination is no test of his ability to read the language. Again, it is necessary for a well-educated man to be familiar with Herbert Spencer; but it is destructive to all true scholarship to urge students to devote so much time and energy to the study of a single author who has not yet completely won his spurs in the field of philosophy...
...lavish his most winning smile upon, and it will be hard to find a more contented being than Signor Smitherini. He knows that he is inspiring two or three little souls with perfect bliss, and is himself expecting every moment an increase in his worldly goods. Is not this true happiness, to be doing good to others and to be getting good from them in return? One cannot imagine an organ-grinder to be a scamp. Take the blackest scoundrel and let him go out into the country and grind a barrel-organ for ten days...