Word: wheatly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Annexation would add greatly to the resources of this country, in wheat lands, forests, furs, fisheries, coal, iron, etc.- No. Am. Rev., Feb., 1889, 54-73; Science 3, 756; Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine...
...sometimes very large, one in Pennsylvania is 150 feet high and 12 miles long, Nantucket and Martha's Vinevard are also terminal moraines. The southern limit, from New Jersey to the Pacific, of this ice-sheet was shown by maps; and, curiously enough, this line also bounds the great wheat fields of the country, the area once covered with ice being far more productive than the rest...
...order of the clubs and societies is much the same as usual, the character not greatly changed. The old Christian Brethren appears under its new name, and the Chess Club is now the Chess and Wheat Club. The athletic records have been compiled by Mr. W. B. Curtis of the Spirit of The Times...
...system, and as one of the secondary results no doubt the stomach may be affected. Among the stronger alcoholic fluids, are Brandy, Rum, Gin and Whiskey. They vary greatly in strength, but the average may be put at 50 per cent. Brandy is made from wine, Whiskey from grain, wheat and rye; Rum is made from molasses. Dyspepsia is one of the most common accompaniments by the use of alcohol, due in part to congestion and inflammation of the stomach. Alcohol diminishes the secretion of gastric-juice. In St. Martin it was noticed that alcohol caused the blood to ooze...
...agree to this verdict. We are not a "bad lot." There are as noble young men among Harvard students as ever despised cant and followed the right. Why then is this unfavorable opinion? It is simply because the rank grass has overtopped good, the tares grown over the wheat. Judged by such a standard as this verdict would necessitate, we would all be athletes, dudes, and writers of sentimental pessimistic verse. This, of course, is absurd. Let us then be judged with fairness if not leniently. We are gentlemen, and our actions prove it. Nor because we sign a prayer...