Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...exchanges corrected a false statement which appeared recently in its columns, about Harvard; and we wish that all college journals could practice a like courtesy. Sensationalism, the great enricher of reporters nowadays, starts on their evil missions almost no end of exaggerated and wholly false statements, and these statements somehow find their way into almost every paper in the country. It is at least courteous that those who have so eagerly published elaborate reports, should be as eager to publish denials of them, especially if undenied, they are likely to do injury. Such courtesy as this, however, unfortunately...
...college; but now that thread has gone, and the '85 man says, "I was graduated last year." But it is different with the senior of '86. He says, at once with pleasure and with regret, "I am graduated this year." Thus the coming of a new year seems somehow to make more of a change than it really does. The recent graduate is more a graduate, and the present senior seems more a senior than before...
There is a popular idea that the utility and magnification of a microscope depend somehow on its size and formidable appearance. How false this conception is can be learned any day by a visit to the work-shop of a practical microscopist. His resplendent "double barrel" binocular is kept carefully under cover, at ordinary times, and only brought out for exhibition, while the real work is done with a smaller and apparently inferior instrument...
There was early an idea that the action of many supernatural forces would be discovered by the powerful eye of the microscope; and the microscopist of the last century was regarded, by his servants and others, as somehow in league with that devil, whose discovery was due to the savant and the humble "flea glass" of the century before...
...schools we have. They were all boys with blood in their veins, and brains in their heads, and tongues that could talk fast enough and to the purpose when they felt at ease. Many of them had enjoyed The Tempest-as who that can understand it does not?- but somehow the touch of pen or pencil paralyzed their powers...