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Word: whether (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...woman with a face like a baked apple called in the greatest despair, unceasingly, "Miss Flynn, O Miss Flynn !" Presently she burst into tears, and propounded two questions to her neighbors in general, the first relative to a mother's feelings, and, failing to receive an answer, the next whether any one had anything about them to keep a poor widow from fainting. It transpired shortly after that Miss Flynn, affected by the solemnity of the day, had given free license to a craving appetite; and, having inadvertently fallen asleep, had been propped up against a neighboring pillar, whence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT HIGH MASS. | 3/8/1878 | See Source »

...meeting of the officers of the four boat-clubs and the Executive Committee of the H. U. B. C., held on Monday evening, resolutions were passed which cannot fail to be of interest to all who are concerned with boating at Harvard, whether they are in favor of class or club races...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOAT-CLUB MEETING. | 3/8/1878 | See Source »

THERE seems to have been some misunderstanding at the University Bookstore about delivering the Crimson. Subscribers for the second half-year, whether they have paid their subscriptions or not, are entitled to the first number of the present volume...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 3/8/1878 | See Source »

...make the best resolutions, but, unfortunately, few carry them out, and as these few would learn equally much whether the elective were conducted in one way or another, it seems to me that it should be so conducted as to give the greatest advantage possible to the men who make up the larger part of the elective...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A FEW HINTS ON HISTORY. | 2/23/1878 | See Source »

...course it is only the less important features of the book that we have criticised. We doubt whether it will accomplish its apparent object of convincing unbelievers in co-education, who, by the by, must not be undeservedly confounded with unbelievers in equal education; but it will certainly furnish pleasant and light reading to anybody who takes it up; and we are happy to state that the author's English is far better than her French...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOK NOTICE. | 2/23/1878 | See Source »

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