Word: roundabout
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...York and see them put safely into the steamer's strongroom, where they will remain until the steamer is met at Mollendo, Peru. The telescope will be shipped on the "Condor" of the Merchants Line around South America through the Straits of Magellan to Peru. It is sent this roundabout way to avoid the handling of the lenses by inexperienced hands at the Isthmus of Panama. From Mollendo the instrument will be taken by rail about 75 miles inland to Arequipa. The chief difficulty will be met there in transferring the heavy machinery to the observatory about three miles away...
...editorials are varied in their subject-matter and, with the exception of a roundabout and redundant column on the question of the "Annex." are decidedly to the point. Whether so much wit and humor is an advantage in the discussion of serious college questions seems doubtful, it is, at any rate, a little incongruous when introduced into a note of gratitude to the faculty itself...
...College Library has received from Mr. Leslie Stephen though Professor Norton the original manuscript of Thackeray's "Roundabout Papers...
...purposely light, and consisted of a short run from the gymnasium to the field. There the men, about forty in number, were lined up in two opposite rows and instructed in the elementary principles of blocking, breaking through and dropping on the ball. The squad then took a sharp roundabout run back to the gymnasium. This plan will be followed out for several days until the men are more accustomed to the work, then regular elevens will be formed and games played. Trafford will probably do all the coaching, and practice will be continued until one or two weeks after...
...stories in this number have insignificant plots which skill in treatment cannot entirely replace. "Beatrice or Flora" is prettily told, though in one or two passages the English strikes the reader as clumsy or inelegant. It would have been improved by the omission of the roundabout introduction. "Du Guesclin's Mistake" is photographic in its accuracy of detall and stops abruptly as if incomplete. It is, however, pleasing in effect...