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The campus looked a lot like the Institute, with its rolling hills, redbrick Victorian buildings, and bluestone roofs.

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The thick, brown condiment - made primarily from yeast extract - was invented in the Victorian capital of Melbourne more than a century ago as an alternative to the British spread Marmite.

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"The fittings are possibly Victorian, maybe slightly later. So all the leather fittings, I don't think they are the same age as the chair," he said.

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Yet he never lost a visceral tenderness for the suffering poor, and he wrote of them with more sympathy and human understanding than any Victorian author after Dickens.

Treating the postwar world’s Victorian hangover should have been left to Stein alone.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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