Word: comes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...should like to express a desire that, in the following particulars, the change may come speedily...
...Vega's "Probeza no es Vileza." The popular character, fashionable life, provincial and peasant life, so far as possible, are represented; nor are university life, law life, sporting life, sea life, reforms, prison abuses, social changes, neglected. In fact, every work of fiction possessing any value seems to have come under the author's eye, and to have been assigned its proper place in this valuable compendium...
AMONG the advantages which universities have is the one which comes from the fact that a large number of men are gathered together with interests more or less in common. Numbers always give a certain amount of influence, and I, for one, do not see why we should not use this as much as possible for our own good. To come to the point, a large number of us want to go to New York (at Thanksgiving, for example) within a train or two of each other. We buy our tickets, one by one, at the usual rate, instead...
...short supply of food furnished. The supply of turkey or grapes or milk, or, in fact, of anything more or less palatable, has a strange proclivity for giving out just at the wrong time. The Crew men say that one cannot get decent meat when one happens to come in at a quarter past six, and that this has been often the case, our own personal experience can testify. To be sure, the Steward never refuses to give us something to eat; but, frankly speaking, pork and ham and pressed hash are not exactly the kind of diet most...
...want subscribers, - a thousand, - if that number will come. Our club rates may be learned by glancing at the advertisement which appears on the outside page: Read and work." - Niagara Index...