Word: anguish
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...made that night have been the basis of the hope and prayers of His followers ever since. Let us yield Him our best room, our best efforts, and He will inspire us with lofty aims and steadfast courage. Mr. William L. Whitney sang "Tears of grief, shame and anguish," from Spohr's "Calvary," and the choir sang the "Chorus of the Sons of Japhet," from Rubinstein's "Tower of Babel...
...having numbers painted on them at intervals of about eighteen inches. Instead of this, all ladies who come to the base-ball games are forced to choose between personal discomfort or some other person's discomfort; between watching the game in the full glare of the sun in silent anguish, and the alternative of raising their parasols, to the utter annihilation of the persons behind them...
Following this is a little rule occupying only two or three lines, yet how much anguish, how much sorrow have those few lines caused! It is the "compulsory prayers" clause. Rule 41 is important; it relates to the discipline of the college. It has been but little changed. Warnings are no longer given, admonition being the first round of the ladder which leadeth to expulsion. The full text of this rule is given below...
...recalls to mind at the mention of this little word. And this parting gift these ruthless despoilers seized with pitiless bands uttering direful threats, unmindful of the tears and entreaties of this unhappy youth thus left at their mercy. "Take my life, but spare my peanuts," he cried in anguish; "sole reminders of my childhood's joys - my only token...
...after the next sifting how many of this collection will ever be read again? If it is necessary to offer any apology for the practice college men indulge in of writing verses, we can say that they do it for personal amusement and are wont to make their private anguish a burden to the public. At all events it is not meant to last, and is very to sure to attain its object...