Word: moment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Members are requested to give their ticket numbers at the moment of purchasing-those who have accounts not being exceptions...
...have not heard fathers complain that the social system in Cambridge was so rotten that they would never send another son here. After making allowance for exaggeration, there is still much which should make those who are aiding in the perpetuation of "a rotten social system" pause a moment to consider whether they have any right-moral or otherwise-to make Cambridge unfit for young men about to begin their college course. ent men of their standing and fame sacrifice much in a pecuniary...
...grit and determination Sanford must have had to have rowed out the two miles, and all praise is due to such a plucky man. On the other hand it is with some regret that we reflect that if he had stopped rowing and held up his hand at the moment when he lost his seat, the race would have been started again...
...that he had become a harmless 'crank.' He boasted that he was the greatest traveller in this country; and certain it is that penniless as he almost always was, he was ever in motion, and after a week's stay at Harvard was likely to turn up at any moment at Washington or some more distant place. He was a self-announced candidate for President of the United States in every campaign, and would argue about his chances with unbounded confidence. When told one day in 1876 that an article had been inserted in a newspaper setting forth the strength...
...dabble much in literature; our effusions are accepted and refused by the college papers, refused and accepted by the magazines and comic papers, from the "Atlantic Monthly" to "Tid Bits", but to almost every litterateur, his aim is to write something acceptable for the moment; to grapple earnestly with literature never occurs to him. Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well, and we would recommend to every nascent Victor Hugo - we are all such, of course - that instead of choosing topics that are easy to treat and hard to criticise - "Moonrise at Sea", "The Character...