Word: around
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...obnoxious odor which pervaded the yard and its immediate neighborhood last Saturday morning, was caused by the smouldering of the cotton felting fastened around the water pipes which lead from University to Thayer. The smouldering was due to the close proximity of the steam pipes to the water pipes...
Books are still left around on the tables in the library instead of being returned to the shelves...
DEAR CHAPPIE: - Things are awful dull around here since our anniversary; nothing is going on, except, now and then, a class German, or a club supper. Our president is about to take a short vacation, and it is rumored around among the chaps that he is going to travel with Mr. John L. Sullivan for the purpose of learning to box, as he is going to meet Dr. McCosh with soft gloves in the spring...
...earlier than usual whether you know anything or not. It is better to know less and be able to express it in the blue book than to know more, and be too muddled and tired to remember it. This working until breakfast with a wet towel around your head is very romantic when you tell it to your sympathizing lady friends, but it is of no use in actual practise. Finally don't study up to the last moment. Take a good breakfast then take a shave and a quiet smoke between 9 and 10 o'clock and then...
...that time at the chest-weights is fully as important as time at the machines. If a man cannot keep time in one case, he certainly cannot in the other. It is not inability, however,; that causes the trouble, but the fact; that the men are occupied in gazing around the gymnasium instead of attending to their business as they should. Such work cannot go on much longer. The men must keep time or they may as well stop rowing. They, like all freshmen crews, seem to think that this daily routine is a species of amusement furnished...