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Word: turns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...agreement is in the hands of the New London Board of Trade, which will in turn make sub-agreements with the railroads, hotels...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New London Again, | 3/3/1891 | See Source »

...family to bequeath more than half of his property to institutions, and as the will provided that $2,100,000 should be given to colleges, etc., Mr. Fayerweather probably entrusted the residuary legacy of some $1,500,000 to the executors with the secret understanding that they should in turn give it to the colleges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Money for Colleges. | 2/27/1891 | See Source »

...forms. The diaphony of Hucbald, seems to have consisted simply in the reduplication at the interval of the fourth or fifth, of the melodies of which music has hitherto consisted. The polyphonic style which was the successor of diaphony involved the simultaneous combination of different melodies; and this in turn gave place at the Reformation to the harmonic style in which a single melody was incorporated into a sequence of chords...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Gilman's Lecture on Music. | 2/26/1891 | See Source »

...explanation which has the ring of authority. It seems that the course is a very expensive one to give, owing to the necessity of instruments, even in an early stage of the teaching of the science. The University, as every one knows, has no funds which it can turn to new uses. Almost all benefactors of the college leave their bequests for special objects, and no one has hitherto thought of providing for a course in astronomy. It is time that some generous graduate should put a stop to the anomalous state of affairs which at present exists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/23/1891 | See Source »

...nine spent $7,800, and yet keeping their $1,500, they have been able to turn over $400 to Mr. Hooper. Their main expenses have been old debts, $675 outfits $640, care of grounds $575, practice pitchers $400, training table $762, and $4,200 for games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annual Report of the Graduate Treasurer. | 2/14/1891 | See Source »

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