Word: setting
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...elected as a citizen of the State to which he had removed. But that is no reason why a non-resident candidate chosen by electors from different States should not be eligible. In the second place, if the cases had been similar, there are many reasons why the precedent set by the action of six years ago should be disregarded. A committee of eminent lawyers decided against the election then, and a committee of equally eminent lawyers decide in favor of it now. There must be good reasons for violating a precedent when lawyers think it advisable...
...first one was set to our Annexed Sisters. The course in which it occurs is a new one in college electives...
...set for others. He is doomed to sing
...set my teeth, and screwed my courage...
...each professor set...