Word: versus
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...congratulate the Vassar Mis. upon reaching the expected end of "Man versus Hairpin," a story which bears resemblance to no other known literary work except "The House that Jack Built," with which it may reasonably claim kin. One easily gets the run of duplicate and duplicated, - "This is the girl who loved the man," etc. The number is, however, one of Vassar's usual merit. The Editor's Table thus sets forth negatively the chief...
...preposition is inadmissible. Now it happens that what is wanted here is not alter, "one as opposed to the other," but unus, "one without the other; one and not two." But the only proper answer, the all sufficient answer, is to refer to Horace (Satires, I. 4, 10): Versus dictabat stans pede in uno, where the editions and dictionaries speak of it as a proverbial expression. Not that stans pede altero might not be used in some cases. If Mr. Reiley were to call on Mr. Allen, we think the result might be thus described: Alanus, stans pede altero, altero...
...connecting it with the Physical Laboratory. They found the resistance to be one seventh of that between Boston and New York. The Company then set about connecting the different buildings of the Yard with one another, and shortly afterward Mr. Burgwyn, in Thayer, essayed a match-game of chess versus Messrs. Angell, Young, MacVane, and Otis, in Hollis...