Word: bottom
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hard tackle does not necessarily involve, as a matter of conscience and patriotic duty, the breaking of a collar bone; and you left your opponents life enough to finish the game and limbs enough to get back to Cambridge. For this old John Harvard thanks you from the bottom of his grateful heart. But you have something more to do; a harder battle to fight, a nobler victory to win, and I would say to every man upon your team: Your splendid record has laid upon your sturdy shoulders another and a weightier duty...
...truth which men see at the bottom of a well is apt to be nothing more than a reflected image of themselves...
...individual writing, namely, Style, any more than a plaster cast can reproduce a marble statue. Shakespeare, you recollect, with that inevitable tact in the choice of epithets which gives to every careless phrase of his an esoteric as well as exoteric meaning, makes Quince exclaim, when he sees Bottom with the ass's head on his shoulders,- "Bless thee, Bottom, bless thee, thou art translated...
...dissertations must be written upon letter paper of good quality, of the quarto size, with a margin of not less than one inch at the top, at the bottom, and on each side, so that they may be bound up without injury to the writing. The sheets on which the dissertation is written must be securely stitched together. The dissertations must not contain more than 10,000 words...
...class 1855, at Cambridge, in its Sophomore year. At college he was a well-known and popular man, though by no means conspicuous. He was a fair student and graduated well. He entered the great Ames' works at North Easton immediately after leaving college. Beginning at the very bottom as an ordinary clerk, he worked his way up quickly and in 1863 he became a member of the firm. He showed great business ability and in 1876 was made treasurer of the corporation, and this position he held till his death. Mr. Ames was always much interested in railroads...