Word: around
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...harm done by such needless exposure is two fold: 1st. As certain parts of the body are chilled, the circulation of the blood becomes irregular, and the heart is liable to ge affected. The captains, however, can avoid this danger by compelling their men to wear more clothing, especially around the neck, arms and legs. 2d. Instead of an increase in breathing power, the lungs are apt to be temporarily, if not permanently injured. Running, compels not only faster, but also deeper breathing; the inhaled air finds its way to the innermost and extremely delicate tissues of the lungs. These...
...soul can get in or out without the porter's bringing the keys. At Harvard it would be impossible to do that. Harvard gave me the impression of an English college in the quad of which a shell has burst; the halls are all separate, and you can walk around them. There and precision of life in our two Universities. They have lost all that at Harvard. I have found that not all Americans remember the relation of Harvard is an alumnus of Emmanuel Collegem, Cambridge, and I suppose Cambridge here was named after Cambridge over there...
...general refreshment room. The hungry man has taken to sitting himself comfortably back in one of the alcoves, with his pockets full of candy, or crackers, or possibly peanuts which he eats and crunches away at his heart's delight. A generous man would pass his nice things around, but not he ! The crunching and other pleasant noises, which some men make while eating, are for the enjoyment of others ; the peanuts and candy are for his hungry self. But to all hungry men we would give this advice, that, if they must eat, they take a better place than...
...which Cadmus sowed. The plain where the moose and the bear were wandering while Shakespeare was writing Hamlet, where a few plain dormitories and other needed buildings were scattered about in my school-boy days, groans under the weight of the massive edifices which have s rung up all around them, crowned by the tower of that noble structure which stands in full view before me as I lift my eyes from the portfolio on the back of which I am now writing.-Oliver Wendell Holmes in the Atlantic...
...Varsity crew yesterday did not take their accustomed run up North Avenue, but circled many times around the track instead...