Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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LAUNDRY! LAUNDRY! Collars 2 1-2 cts, cuffs 1-2 ct, 30 per cent less than any other laundry. As I have my own laundry I guarantee to give better satisfaction for less money. The latest style of E. W. collars and cutis. Novelty in neck wear, Jersey tights. Sweaters in all colors, etc., etc. Tailoring - Repairing and pressing done in the best style. Clothes cleaned by Steam Naptha process, which is the only process by which we guarantee to remove any stain, or give $50 reward for failure to do so. Laundry to be delivered at the request...
1LAUNDRY! LAUNDRY! Collars 2 1-2 cts, cuffs 1-2 ct, 30 per cent less than any other laundry. As I have my own laundry I guarantee to give better satisfaction for less money. The latest style of E. W. collars and cufis. Novelty in neck wear, Jersey tights. Sweaters in all colors, etc., etc. Tailoring - Repairing and pressing done in the best style. Clothes cleaned by Steam Naptha process, which is the only process by which we guarantee to remove any stain, or give $50 reward for failure to do so. Laundry to be delivered at the request...
...conducted by some of the later graduates of the Harvard Divinity School, who are banded together under the name of "The Cambridge Brotherhood." Mr. J. B. Sharland is now drilling a choir to lead in the congregational singing. The addresses will be direct appeals in the interests of a better, a purer life, and will be absolutely free from doctrinal teachings. - Cambridge Chronicle...
...gaps would be easily supplied with men at any rate seasoned by long practice, if they had no other valuable qualities. The higher the training of the college at large, the less dependent we shall be on what we may call the stars of the athletic worlds and the better able to produce teams, if not of conspicuous, at any rate of even merit, from year to year. The great strength of the athletic organizations of Eton and Rugby and Harrow lies in the fact that every man in the schools is in more or less severe training...
...Ball," a poem (for want of a better word) of some half dozen stanzas, expresses in verse what the title says in prose, and it has this good point, that its author does not pretend to any wonderfully poetic idea, and does not try to express it in hexameter or pompous blank verse, and so we have a simple college poem which is sufficient unto itself...