Word: transit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...human mind. The value of all objects and subjects depend on the harmony of saving properties of the Deity for powers and their value is in their power. If the Faculty will give me some incouragement to write for the college papers, or a chance to speak in the transit of the Memorial Hall a few times before the commencement, I want to go to London, England this Summer...
...appropriation of $85,000 is asked to fit out an expedition for the the observation of the transit of Venus...
Secretary Hunt recommends to Congress an appropriation of $85,000 to defray the expenses of the observation of the transit of Venus next year...
...Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. denies that it has used any money in bribing the newspapers...
...kept on till a nail protruding from the floor carried away the entire front of my vest, and a goodly portion of my trousers, and thus arrested further progress. I was quite willing to stop there, as I had become thoroughly convinced that there were other modes of transit, less rapid, perhaps, but quite as agreeable as sliding across a rough floor on the bridge of one's nose. The ordinary Sophomore would, at this point, have bid a tearful adieu to so questionable a form of amusement, court-plastered his nose, and forthwith presented at No. 5 a petition...