Word: wagons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Rodney Smith, better known perhaps as "Gypsy" Smith was born in a Gypsy wagon and brought up as a Gypsy boy, an outcast from society. The remarkable conversion of his father formed the beginning of his own active and successful career. He combines with the fire of his nomadic reace, the strength of a Christian education, and is now generally considered to be one of the most persuasive pulpit orators in England...
...past and not in spite of it. We Americans are apt to undervalue tradition, and for this very reason I think a study of the motives and principles of such men as Dante of great value in deprovincializing our minds. Its guidance in politics may save the huge baggage wagon of human progress from many a sorry jolt and sometimes even from such a total overturn as that of the French Revolution. Montaigne's unconscious errand was not to break away from tradition, but to show that the past was even more valuable in certain ways as contrast than...
...HOLLIS.FOR SALE. - 1 Open box wagon and harness and polo pony, all complete. Must be sold at once, seen at Morse's stable, Prescott...
...teams, but of these only one has been induced to come out this year. Capt. Moen has left the matter entirely in charge of Robb '93, who anchored on the freshman last year. The training consists at present of five or six pulls of two minutes each against a wagon spring, light work on the chest-weights and a short run. It is not by any means certain that Harvard will be represented in this event at the Mott Haven games, but a team chosen from the present candidates would have for anchor, Robb '93, 170 lbs.; for rope...