Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...good form," for a wealthy family to send children to a public school. Again, as in Cambridge, a hostile feeling displays itself in regulations which abolish recess to prevent mingling of pupils. This attitude of a portion of our people I have called negative opposition, because, while threatening no attack, it weakens the public school system by withdrawing the interest and sympathy needed to support the common schools...
...kinds of insect propagation; gnats taking some of the long tubular ones, and being restrained by a kind of a trap till their work is finished. Bees and balancing flies are fond of tubular flowers. Moths fertilize Orchids, carrying pollen balls clinging to their tongue or eyes. Humming-birds attack long necked flowers like the Trumpet Vine. Flowers allure these animal friends by colors and odors, and guide them by a beaten path to their goal; they discourage intruders by ingenious safeguards...
...nightfall then Lee held the same ground; although both sides were exhausted. McClellan was too much disorganized to attack the next day, and accordingly he waited for reinforcements. But meanwhile Lee fell back across the Potomac. McClellan's fault was not failure to attack again, but to attack one day earlier, while one-third of Lee's forces were at Harper's Ferry...
Punctuation is still a lost art to a few society lights, thinks the Boston Beacon. An elderly lady who had invited a favorite nephew to spend New Year's day with her did not understand from his written apology that he was suffering from an attack of erysipelas. The note read: "Dear aunt, I should certainly have been with you had I been well; even now I am in great pain while I write with my nose." It is presumable that a man who could successfully accomplish the feat of writing with his nose would be easily forgiven...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Yesterday's CRIMSON contained an attack upon the English department which seems to me very questionable, not to say unjust. The writer has left no doubt as to what course he attacks; it is, of course, English 8, and the author assailed is Byron. I believe the writer to be in the wrong when he says that too much time is given to rehearsing the petty incidents of an author's life; for what is there that so excites an interest in an author as to obtain a knowledge of his private life, and then to observe...