Word: around
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fond mother on visiting her son at the University and looking around his room with an anxiouseye, asked: "My son, do you ever sweep under the deed?" "Oh, yes, mother," was the earnest reply, "it is so much easier than to use a dust-pan."-[Spectator...
...game of ball is by Homer, according to whom hand-ball was used coevally with the destruction of Troy. From the game of hand-ball came tennis, which in the sixteenth century became very popular. In the fourteenth century was introduced a large air-ball, to be beaten around with the first. This soon developed into the foot-ball. From tennis originated cricket, which in America has taken the from of base-ball.-Post...
...clock, Harvard Hall, Holden Chapel, and the entrance to the seats around the tree will be opened to those having tickets...
Seniors are requested to avoid any absurdity of dress at the exercises around the tree...
...pursuit of things not seen, and by no means with reference to the wants of the ordinary American man of our time, whom we have to get to fill nearly all our salaried positions, with a wife who likes comfort and expects some share in the social life around her, and children who chafe, as all children do, under poverty, and like a taste of the good things that are going. The result has been simply that the leading lawyers hardly ever go on the bench, and that the ablest business men will not accept political positions, but take service...