Word: compendium
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Immigration is injurious to the moral condition of the United States. (a) Our work hourses and prisons are filled by those of foreign extraction.- N. Am. Rev., Jan., 1884. (b) They form the liquor power.- J. D. Strong, "Our Country," p. 42; Compendium of the tenth Census...
...There is plenty of room for immigrants.- Compendium of Tenth Census, Vol. I, p. 7. (b) Immigration should be diverted from the seaboard to the west and south.- Proceedings of the Immigration Convention of Texas, December...
...writing of this article was brought about by reading a book on "Physical Exercise," published by Wood, a noted general athlete, in 1867. It contained a compendium of records which included those of all general athletes, and still more, of running horses, balooning and locomotive racing. These records, some of which are of a most startling and extraordnary nature we have made a bouquet of; and that leads the way to a little talk about records in general...
...order to combine with the foregoing lesson in natural history a harmless drill in mathematics, and so give the book value as a compendium of musical forms, a chant is inserted, having for its words the pathetic trilogy of the 'three little kittens in a basket of saw-aw-dust.' This number doubtless suggested serious thoughts to the compiler, for he accompanies it with the touching refrain, 'I've lost my doggy,' and the more pretensions, 'A horrible tale,' in eight-line stanzas with a moral beginning con dolore and increasing in pathos till it becomes as much more doloroso...
...order to combine with the foregoing lesson in natural history a harmless drill in mathematics, and so give the book value as a compendium of musical forms, a chant is inserted, having for its words the pathetic trilogy of the 'three little kittens in a basket of saw-aw-dust.' This number doubtless suggested serious thoughts to the compiler, for he accompanies it with the touching refrain, 'I've lost my doggy,' and the more pretensions, 'A horrible tale,' in eight-line stanzas with a moral beginning con dolore and increasing in pathos till it becomes as much more doloroso...