Word: whose
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students of Tokio Japan Imperial College of Engineers have recently made valuable improvements in the common electric light. They now have one in use, the intensity of whose light equals that of 3000 candles...
Henry Hutchens, of Putney, England, the champion sprinter of the world, whose well-earned reputation is so great that he can find no competitors in genuine matches, proposes, before his pending retirement, to make a series of trials with the purpose of beating several existing records. Hi first essay will be at 300 yards. The present best on record in the world is 30 3-4 seconds, made by himself, and he feels quite confident of his ability to run the distance in "even time"-300 yards in 30 seconds...
...Whose tender, haunting strains echoed his wrong...
...happy result has been an immense improvement in the "middle class" education of the country, and also in the liberal culture of the two chief Universities, whose authorities name wisely and powerfully sustained and extended this improved system, in which the study of the English Language and Literature, and of Modern Languages holds a high place, in conjunction with, not in opposition to, a respectable proficiency in Greek and Latin...
...supreme control a man's tutor had over him. He bought his clothes, gave him his very scanty allowance of pocket money, and attended to all his financial transactions, as well as to his moral training. Life at a university was exceedingly cheap. We instance a nobleman's son whose yearly allowance was forty pounds, this being expected to cover everything. There was indeed little chance to spend money, for the statutes of the college even went so far as to expressly forbid such extravagance as hunting or the wearing of "great muffs," both being symptoms of what the tutor...