Word: whose
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...initiative, the one that made a demand which public opinion has adjudged it impossible to comply with without loss of self-respect, or the one that merely states its inability to accede to this demand? "Call black, white," says Yale, "or we shall not play." "We cannot," says Harvard. Whose fault is it that there is no game this year...
These two characters form an agreeable contrast with those of Beralde-Argan's brother, a man of good sense-and the suitor of Angelique, Cleante, whose modest and graceful manners are pleasing; whilst the delicate sentiments and sound reason of Angelique stand opposed to the affected mildness and treacherous advice of Beline, Argan's wife, whose object is to deprive her step-children of their father's property, but who is baffled in this attempt by an artifice planned by Toinette...
...system of assigning seats at lectures in alphabetical order has for years worked to the disadvantage of the men whose names always come towards the end of the enrolment lists. A great part of a student's convenience in a course has been made to depend wholly on the accident of his initials. While A and B have been within easy hearing of the lecturer or sight of the blackboard, the unfortunate W and the like whose name is not far from legion, have often got little more from a lecture than the satisfaction of not being marked absent...
...whose name is not on the list, or any who is assigned to a section which he cannot attend should immediately give written notice, at 7 Hollis stating fully the particulars of his case...
Work on the Hemenway Gymnasium is now expected to proceed much more rapidly. Dr. Sargent is authority for the statement that the steam-fitters, whose strike has been delaying the work, are expected back today...