Word: three
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...called me. I felt of the servant's pulse, and counted 323 beats per minute. Then, taking from my pocket a little vial of homoeopathic pills which I chanced to have, I dissolved one in a tumblerful of water, and told her to take a teaspoonful every three hours. While preparing the decoction I innocently asked how Miss Rosalie was this afternoon. "Rosalie who?" replied the lady, "there is no one of that name here." I begged her pardon, explaining that I was very absentminded, and was thinking of another patient. As soon as possible I left the house, muttering...
VERILY, I put my hand out to let a draft of fresh air into an ill-ventilated spot, and, 10, I hit upon a hornet's nest! Within the few short days that have passed since my communication appeared, no less than three letters have been written on the subject, and I understand there are some more in store for me, wretched one! Let it be understood, however, that "J. N. M." is by no means so ferocious as might be supposed from the warmth with which the controversy is conducted. So small is, in fact, his bump of pugnaciousness...
...editorial in a recent Advocate takes up the much-discussed question of the football championship, and decides that Princeton still has a right to the title which she has held for the past three years. To us it seems that this decision is wrong. The facts are as follows: Princeton was champion last year, and has won two games and tied one this year. (This assumes that she will get a game from Columbia either by play or forfeit.) Yale has precisely the same score. Now, if the championship is something that is played for each year...
Here have I sought for full three years and more
...true. Last year a professor who taught four courses, each taken by some 50 or 60 men, repeatedly extended invitations to his pupils to call on him. For this purpose he set apart one evening a week. What was the result? On the first evening exactly three came, the next two, and so on in arithmetical progression. Another instructor has even gone to the trouble of sending formal invitation cards to his pupils, with the same result. Several other cases could be cited to support the opinion that the evil is rooted partly, at least, in the habitual conservatism...