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Word: closets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...SALE-A large, flat-top Derby desk, nearly new, in quartered oak. Size 6 ft. by 3 1-2 feet. Has eight drawers and a book closet. J. F. SPALDING, 13 Follen street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notices. | 10/28/1887 | See Source »

...SALE-A large, flat-top Derby desk, nearly new, in quartered oak. Size 6 ft. by 3 1-2 feet. Has eight drawers and a book closet. J. F. SPALDING, 13 Follen street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notices. | 10/27/1887 | See Source »

...henceforth as storage room, now very necessary, for crippled nine-pins and rheumatic balls. See to it that you do not allow the gymnasium officials to deprive you of any part of your wonted play-ground, especially for the advantage of base-ball, a game for which a small closet gives amply sufficient practice room. If by any chance some of your unused alleys should be put to any other use be certain that the college, as a whole, will lend you as much moral and financial aid as the Cambridge car strikers have received from their firm allies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/21/1887 | See Source »

...name of truth, they make their petition. Or, if the incongrous present seal be still held across their request, it would be in order for them to remind the objectors that he for whose glory they claim the college was founded said : "When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and, when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN OPINION ON THE PRAYER PETITION | 1/27/1886 | See Source »

...Shakspere, asserts that Lear cannot be acted. Such a judgment may be regarded as a bolder impeachment of Shakspere than the mere alteration of a plot, since it condemns, not a part, but the whole, for the purpose for which it was written. For I take it that closet tragedies are not produced until authors get to be more in love with themselves than with nature. Undoubtedly it is hard to put King Lear on the stage; for it requires a great actor of the heroic school such as is seldom found out of Italy, and calls for an elaboration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: King Lear. | 3/26/1885 | See Source »

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