Word: companionability
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...Youth's Companion offers prizes to the amount of $5,000 for short stories There are three prizes ranging from $1,000 to $250 for each of the three classes of stories; for boys for girls, and of advertures...
...beginning this series of photometric observations, about ten years ago, Prof. Pickering first made use of a horizontal telescope and mirror attachment. The instrument was called a "photometer." There was a companion telescope, also horizontal, combined with it for observing the reflected image of the polar star. The same instrumental adaptations were made for the subsequent or second series. This long experience gave confidence in incurring the expense of the larger under-taking now brought to perfection...
...entitled to vote, and was discharged, pending an investigation. It is said that several others had been informed by a politician that they had a right to vote, and were intending to cast their ballots also, but were deterred by the arrest of their companion...
...Howe, last year president of the Harvard Monthly, has been appointed probationary editor of the Youth's Companion...
...made up of the writings, humorous and otherwise, of several of the best known authors, and there is no trace of the cheap literature which some readers make use of to amuse their audiences. The book is tastefully bound and is as well an ornament as a real companion. We heartily recommend this little volume to all, not only as of interest in itself, but as a fitting souvenir of pleasant evenings spent with Mr. Riddle...