Word: backless
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Dates: during 1877-1877
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...trebly so when the aforesaid proctor determines to take his "constitutional" in said boots in said examination-room. A piteous story might be told of a man who by accident has to sit within two feet of damp, cold walls (lower Mass. last Monday, for example) in a rheumatic, backless chair, and listen to the warlike tread of the officious guardian proctor, all the while attempting - can he be blamed if he fails? - to calmly reason on the probable result of increasing population and capital, on rents, profits, and wages. With stoical indifference we accept the inevitable...