Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...ascertained, the substance of what the Corporation wish to do is this: if each officer or instructor in the University will set aside five per cent of his salary for investment, the Corporation will add five per cent and put this sum out at compound interest, thus forming a kind of Savings Bank. Whenever an officer or instructor ceases to be such, he must, unless he has served the number of years requisite for retirement, withdraw his individual fund at the same time. And at the death of a fund-holder his accumulated share is to be paid...
...name for the Common. By the way, is it not a little inconsistent for a paper which has such a holy aborrence of a lager-beer saloon as the Beacon to take rum in its tea? We are afraid that the Beacon must have been imbibing some of this compound when the last number was written...
...modern synonyme for these braxe has been the subject of much investigation. The Greek pialphanu and the French talons, which would make pantalons, or all-heels, were once thought to have formed it; but the languages were too foreign to each other to justify the supposition of such a compound...
...proud I am to be a son of one of the glorious May-flour pilgrims! How I delight in this matutinal devotion! How it strengtheneth me for y daily duties. We have twenty recitations a week. My hardest branches are Spelling and arithmetic. In y latter I find compound fractures especially difficult Most of y college felloes are goode and pious, but there are two whom y Evil One hath enthrald. They - poor wicket creatures! do frequently sneak to a forest in the neighbouring hamlet of Watertown and do play cards, y which offence is punishable with expulsion. I pray...