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Word: persons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...subject. The first step is to frame subjects with the greatest possible brevity and celarness. Then it might be feasible for both sides to confer, by letter or by representatives, as to the full meaning of the question. Again, it might be well to appoint some impartial person an arbiter on definition, to whom the views of both sides might be submitted in full, and who should say once for all what the question means. After this nothing new should be admitted in the way of definition save by agreement of both sides...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 3/31/1897 | See Source »

...legs straight, and the number of kilos. lifted with the legs bent, added to the strength of the grip of the right and left hands, expiratory power as tested by the manometer, and one tenth of the weight in kilos. multiplied by the number of times that the person can raise his weight by dipping between the parallel bars and pulling his weight up to his chin on the rings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: List of the 50 Strongest Men in the University. | 3/30/1897 | See Source »

...will be of benefit to him alone, and is unwilling to do what he can just as well as not to help a thletics in the University, aside from what he will get out of it for himself, he is rightly looked upon as a thoroughly selfish and ungrateful person who cares only for his own good. And yet this apathy cannot be regarded with any more contempt than that of the man who comes out for a team, shows himself physically worthy of a place on it, and, just as he is beginning to be relied on for steady...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/15/1897 | See Source »

With Mr. Everett there was none of this personality. He had great personal beauty and the most perfectly attuned classic manner. It is possible for you to form a very good conception of him by the law of negatives from the person and oratory of his son, Wm. Everett. Mr. Everett always made the most careful preparation for his speeches and would arrange his watch or glass with the utmost nicety...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COL. HIGGINSON 'S LECTURE. | 3/3/1897 | See Source »

Until the supply of tickets is exhausted, every student and every officer of Radcliffe and of Harvard may obtain a ticket by applying in person, before February 27, at the office of the Secretary of Radcliffe College and at the office of the Secretaries of Harvard University respectively. Tickets will be ready for distribution February...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/27/1897 | See Source »

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