Word: turns
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...bell yesterday afternoon served another purpose besides calling men to recitations. It announced the triumphal entry to the yard of Old John and his sumptuous turn out. The fruit business will doubtless be very much accelerated by the new donkey and though we have some forbodings about John's personal safety we wish him and his donkey long life...
...second great improvement of his method is that, since the metal is heated uniformly and continuously, it can be forged into shape by machines with perfect accuracy. It is no longer necessary that a man should pound only where the heat remains in the metal, now by one turn of a machine, the metal is twisted into the desired shape, and the finished product has been produced...
...Club last evening on "University Life in the Romance Countries of Europe." It has only been within the last sixty years that the American student has come in contact with European professors, and this contact so far has been mostly with German professors. It is now that we should turn our attention more towards the universities of the Romance countries of Europe, - especially France, Italy, and Spain...
...life here is a succession of visitations, some good, some evil; and it is for us to turn them all to good, to see our time and take advantage of it. The object of all teaching is to make people do this, but it is a hard lesson to learn. Our visitations often take the form of trials. The Paritans, in the midst of the hardships which everywhere attended them, yet seized the opportunity which they saw had come, and success rewarded them. How different was the outcome of the efforts of those who persecuted the Hugenots in Francel. Because...
...station in Peru, we had made our touchdown in the football game. The success of one was the success and the joy of all. This feeling he retained even when his work took him to another state and there was probably no day in which his mind did not turn at least a dozen times to the college as the centre of his hopes and interests...