Word: careful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...sweet childhood's want of care...
...aunt as a last resource. I did n't get to them often, though. Well, it was about the time when the mayflower comes out, you know, and sixteen must needs go to Spectacle Pond, where she said they grew best, and I went with her. Not that I care for the flower much; indeed, I suggested to sixteen that it was a pity to disturb them, as they looked so prettily as they grew. But she reminded me that they were all covered with leaves then, and somehow I felt shut...
...said that there is a guardian angel who watches over the steps of drunkards, babies, and fools, and perhaps his watchful care is extended to students...
...goodies are not wholly to blame for the wretched way in which they do their work. What kind of attention can we expect a woman will give to sweeping and dusting, who is paid only forty cents a week for the care of each room under her charge? The trouble lies in the parsimony of the financial managers, who prefer to employ the untidy, clumsy, unintelligent Irish at the rate of fourteen or eighteen dollars per month (in proportion to the number of rooms cleaned), than to secure, at slightly higher rates, neat, careful, and efficient workwomen...
...care of rooms in Beck Hall presents a striking contrast to the care of rooms in the College buildings. While the duty of the College domestic seems to be the spreading of dust at an equal depth all over the room, the servants in Beck work as if they had seen good furniture before, and knew how to take care of it. Any one who has seen the interior of rooms in that building will acknowledge that a degree of cleanliness is there maintained which is unknown in Weld, Matthews, or Holworthy...