Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...James Cumnock, 91, was unanimously re-elected captain of the eleven for 1890. The following men attended the meeting: Crosby, Hutchinson, Hallowell, Stickney. P. Trafford, Tilton, Upton, Cranston, Blanchard, Dean, Fearing, Lee, Saxe, B. Trafford. Mr. Higginson has invited the eleven to attend a dinner at his home on Common wealth Avenue this evening...
...frequent again, the monuments exhibit a great variety of subjects. A favorite one is the dead man reclining on a couch, surrounded by his friends who make him offerings. The class of representations contains a special reference to the life beyond the grave. All other monuments. however, represent merely common scenes of daily life, without any reference to death except that contained in the general atmosphere of sadness in the figures. There are very few stones on which either a sick or a dead person is represented...
...Boston Latin School plays the English High School team on Brookline common this afternoon...
...undoubtedly recovered badly and finished badly. The faults in the recover were the most telling faults, though perhaps not the most apparent. But Mr. Watson-Taylor has assumed that the crew rowed as Mr. Storrow wished them to; this is distinctly not so. While we had faults that were common to every man, our most glaring faults were individual ones. The men were together but a short time and had been taught to row in about as many different ways as there are men in the boat. There was hardly time after Mr. Storrow got hold of them...
...Canada and the colonies in that they taught their lessons of resolution which served them well in later years. Her history from 1787 to the breaking out of the civil war shows great advancement as a people until in 1867 the provinces, hitherto isolated, feeling that they needed a common protection in commerce bound themselves together into the Canadian Federal Union. Its executive power is vested in its governor-general appointed for six years who has the power of pardoning all offenses. He is assisted by thirteen cabinet officers. The legislature composes a senate appointed for life, a house commons...