Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...building is devoted wholly to the business of instruction, and the teachers are responsible for the good conduct of the pupils while under their care. When they pass from the recitation rooms they fall under the eye of an entirely different set of officers, who regulate their whole life apart from books. The discipline for offenders consists chiefly of admonition, deprivation of privileges, and seclusion. In extreme cases corporal punishment is administered in the presence of the president. Incorrigibles are expelled. A majority of the teachers and overseers are women. In the department of instruction are seven male professors...
...elements of subsistence which are not found in any one form of nutriment. Benefit results from what is digested, not from what is eaten merely. A man's natural appetite and sense of hunger should determine his times of eating, and meals should be from four to five hours apart. In everything relating to food and diet, personal tastes must be duly regarded...
...House yesterday a resolution was adopted setting apart Monday, Feb. 27, 1882, for the memorial services upon Garfield...
Just as Louis XVI. loved lock making, so Charles IV. of Spain had a craze for the manufacture of sausages, which he carried on in strict seclusion in a building specially set apart for it. Lady B., a handsome English woman, true to the instincts of Grandmamma Eve, must needs peep in on his most Christian majesty. He detected the fair spy, and punished her by seizing her with his bloody hands and repeatedly kissing...
...lost his top, or because his grandmamma had found it necessary to use her slipper for another purpose than protecting her aged foot. He was crying because the time to part with all the dear ones at home had come. That morning his grandmamma had taken him apart and had said, "You're getting a big boy now, Henry, and it is necessary that you go out into the world to seek your fortune. You cannot expect to live in this forest all your days, you know. But before you go let me give you this magic scrap of paper...