Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Professor Sophocles was first "brought out," it is said, in 1836 by two Yale tutors, Messrs. N. P. Seymour and S. C. Brace, who had known him at Hartford, where he was living in obscurity with the manuscript of his Greek grammar packed away at the bottom of his trunk. They invited him to come to New Haven, and the Yale people at once made him at home, giving him the nominal position of assistant to Professor Gibbs, the Hebrew scholar, who was then librarian, in order that the young Greek might be entitled to a room in the chapel...
...mysterious individual was observed yesterday morning busily engaged for a long time in holding up the trunk of the beech tree. It was generally supposed that the faculty had placed a guard over the venerable relic, but on consulting Jones this theory was found to be false. It is now feared that O'Dynamite Rossa has schemes against this pet of the college authorities through a mistaken opinion that it is an English...
...Grand Trunk Railroad pays $5,000,000 in bonds and $250,000 in cash for its recent purchase, the North Shore Railroad...
...that college it is impossible to say, but it may be safely estimated to be a considerable influence in securing that result. If, as our correspondent suggests, some way were found of securing permanently reduced rates of fare for the students of Harvard on one or more of the trunk lines leading from Boston, and this should come to be a matter of general public knowledge, there can be no doubt that many who would otherwise be deterred from entering Harvard, owing to the great distance and expense of the trip, would thereby be induced to enter. By the establishment...
...trunk lines have agreed to a general advance in east bound freight rates...