Word: air
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...more work than I could perform by studying twenty-three hours a day, I did not expect a very exalted mark. To-day, on entering his chamber of horror, I saw the section sitting with their heads buried in their hands, and Mr. Hut gazing at them with an air of triumph. Creeping to the desk, I gasped: "My mark?" "Eighteen per cent," briskly answered he of condition fame. After the recitation, when about to poison myself with soda at Hubbard's, I was comforted by learning that all the men except two had got under forty...
...charming or sunny as the day; but if she be not so to me for my own merits, what care I how transcendentally agreeable she be"? Here's the Junior, feeling his dignity as an upper class man, and determined not to waste his sweetness on the desert air...
These sights filled me with horror and disgust, and I hastened to the gallery. What a change! An air of comfort pervaded everything. No more care-worn faces to be seen, but everywhere happiness and ease! Here I found a great crowd who were eager to enter the booth devoted to Art. Many were turned away and could only peer in, and see their more fortunate friends reclining on divans and feasting their eyes on the pictures and statuary which surrounded them. Close by were two booths where one could be taught to imitate the Italians and Spaniards in their...
MEMORIAL Hall needs to be much better ventilated. We have often come in a little late, and found the air so close as to be absolutely unbearable, as indeed we might expect when several hundred men are sitting in a room where the entrance of fresh air is so effectually prevented as it is in Memorial Hall. Threats and entreaties hitherto have been equally useless; "the windows cannot be opened during meal-time without making too great a draught," or "the hall has been sufficiently ventilated in the morning." We are not rash, but if something is not done soon...
Whose soul was the soul of the midnight air...