Plummer in A Sentence

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    A rough measurement of the speed of the freshly mown lawns was 9.9 seconds on the Plummer scale.

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    C. Plummer, Oxford, 1896); Nennius, Historia Brittonum, § 64 (ed.

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    Crowninshield (1772-1851), a member of the national House of Representatives in1824-1831and Secretary of the Navy in 1814; the Bertram Home for Aged Men (1877) in a house built in 1806-1807; the Plummer Farm School for Boys (incorporated 1855, opened 1870), another charity of Caroline Plummer, on Winter Island; the City Almshouse (1816) and the City Insane Asylum (1884) on Salem Neck; a home for girls (1876); the Fraternity (1869), a club-house for boys; the Marine Society Bethel and the Salem Seamen's Bethel; the Seamen's Orphan and Children's Friend Society (1839); an Associated Charities (1901), and the Salem Hospital (1873).

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    Dreaming Spirals, Liz Plummer's textile art blog, highlights her wonderful painting and dying techniques.

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    Eccl., edited by C. Plummer (Oxford, 1896), ii.

    6

    His scuffed shot fell to Plummer, who could only slide the ball wide of the post.

    7

    In 1751 he was appointed professor of medicine, but continued to lecture on chemistry, and in 1756 he was elected joint professor of chemistry at Edinburgh along with Andrew Plummer, on whose death in the following year the sole appointment was conferred on Cullen.

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    In 1842-1855 he was pastor of the South Congregational Church of Boston, and in 1855-1860 was preacher to the university and Plummer professor of Christian Morals at Harvard; he then left the Unitarian Church, with which his father had been connected as a clergyman at Hadley, resigned his professorship and became pastor of the newly established Emmanuel Church of Boston.

    9

    In the early 1750s began a saga to succeed Plummer which here can only be outlined.

    10

    On the chronology and genuineness of the works commonly ascribed to Bede, see Plummer's ed., i., cxlv-clix.

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    On this edition is partly based the later edition by the Rev. C. Plummer, already cited above.

    12

    See Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, edited by Earle and Plummer (Oxford, 1892-1899); Bede, Hist.

    13

    See Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica, ii., iii., iv., v., edited by C. Plummer (Oxford, 1896); Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, edited by Earle and Plummer (Oxford, 1899).

    14

    See Earle and Plummer's edition of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

    15

    See Saxon Chronicle (Earle and Plummer), s.a.

    16

    See Saxon Chronicle (Earle and Plummer), years 852-853, 868, 874.

    17

    Stubbs (London, 1874) Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, edited by C. Plummer (Oxford, 1892-1899).

    18

    The Epp. of Paul written after he became a Prisoner (New York, 1887); Plummer, Expositor's Bible (1888); Bourquin, Etude critique sur les past.

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    The Essex Institute (1848) is housed in a brick building (1851) with freestone trimmings and in old Plummer Hall (1857); its museum contains some old furniture and a collection of portraits; it has an excellent library and publishes quarterly (1859 sqq.) Historical' Collections.