Word: clears
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...whole community, of which he was a member. Only thirty-seven years old he had the best half of his life still before him. The work which he had devoted himself to was one of the greatest public importance and benefit, and he himself, by virtue of rare foresight, clear-headedness, vigor, artistic taste, generosity and nobility of purpose united with high public spirit, had already become one of the most valuable citizens of the commonwealth...
...Shakspere's Lear "a clear case of insanity from beginning...
...clear then that the flower exercises are an old and unbroken tradition, and that they have existed in their present form for upwards of thirty years. To substitute artificial ceremonies for the living custom-the scramble for the flowers, is hardly a reasonable proposition. A tradition is the slow product of time and tendencies, and is only susceptible of very gradual change or modification. Once rudely disturbed from without and its very essence is gone. Briefly, you can not take away the flowers and the scrimmage on Class Day without destroying the tradition. You may still have exercises there...
...polo team practiced at Lower Mystic pond yesterday afternoon, where the ice has frozen since the last snow so that is clear and smooth. A scrub game was played with Somerville High School, which is said to have the strongest team in the interscholastic league this year. The Harvard team won easily by the score of five goals to nothing...
...Came upon the Midnight Clear, Sullivan...