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Word: open (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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MEMORIAL HALL will be kept open during the recess, and those who are away will receive allowance for temporary absence. This plan is, on the whole, the fairest that can be adopted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 12/18/1879 | See Source »

...best runners on the track. The distance - thirty miles - is indeed rather long, but for this reason it will be all the more satisfaction for the team that is lucky enough to win it. We would suggest that the Harvard Athletic Association should offer some similar open event at its Spring meeting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/18/1879 | See Source »

...water, several inches deep, covering the floors of the upper rooms, and leaking down through holes in the ceiling. At about noon the fire was under control, but was not entirely out until an hour later. A large part of the south roof was burnt, leaving the rooms below open to the air, and obliging all the occupants of the entry to seek shelter elsewhere. Vacant rooms in Thayer and Holyoke were placed at their disposal by the Bursar. No satisfactory explanation of the way in which the fire started has yet been given. The damage done the building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STOUGHTON FIRE. | 12/18/1879 | See Source »

Prof. (pursuing the even tenor of his sentence). - be kind enough to open that window...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 12/5/1879 | See Source »

...trodden on the edge of dangerous and unknown truths preferred, - two cupfuls of platitudes, four cupfuls of conceit; then add two pounds of feeling allusions to the effect that the great majority of your friends never use soap and water, and don't know enough to open their bedroom windows at night. Garnish the dish with "it seems to me," and sprinkle freely with the pronoun I. Serve with grandiloquence and bombast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO MAKE AN AFTER-DINNER SPEECH. | 12/5/1879 | See Source »

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