Word: turn
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Recall their light and turn...
...amplification is now introduced in the person of the handsome young clergyman, who is, evidently, about to cause a few ripples in the course of true love. "Jack," at present, is dead; but no experienced novel-reader can doubt the ability of that punctual young man to turn up at any moment. The number also contains a review of Mistral's Calendan, an article on the financial system of Texas, before the annexation, and an interesting account of Liszt, by one of his pupils. To say that the Atlantic is "as good as ever" is high praise; and there...
CERTAIN we are, that in the person of Dr. Eliot, its President, Harvard has a living illustration of the beauty and power of a fine, neat, simple eloquence, which only need be adapted to each scholar's and each gentleman's native turn of feeling and thought, or his acquisitions, to realize our view of what is to be desired. - College Herald...
...young man of a prudent turn of mind, who has just entered Harvard College, applied for insurance on his property in a prominent office in New York. A portion of the policy returned read as follows: "Insurance is effected on his education, raw, wrought, and in process, and materials for completing the same, including library of printed books, bookcases, musical instruments, eye-glasses and canes, statuary and works of art, wearing apparel, beds and bedding, contained in No. -, Thayer Hall, College Yard, Cambridge. Permission to work-extra hours, not later than 10 P. M., to even up work...
...turn them into senseless stone...