Word: carefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their families. Peterkin stated that he thought the plan had both advantages and disadvantages. While a tutor's wife could aid him in creating an hospitable atmosphere in his apartments, the presence of women and children about a student building, such as the House, would not be wholly desirable. Care in selecting the location of the married tutors' apartments might do much to eliminate any disadvantage on that score. Peterkin believes that the unmarried men should be scattered throughout the Houses, keeping near enough to their tutees to be of educational and social benefit...
...What 'the graduate' who wrote the letter states may be all very true. . . . Harvard does need a new gymnasium, and she needs a library and a host of other things; Harvard has not enough money to take proper care of the buildings she now has. . . . Harvard has no fairy godmother to slip round millions into her hands every other month. Yet in spite of this she seems to get on pretty well, staying near the head of the procession for the past three hundred years. . . . Whenever Harvard needed anything in the years gone by, a friend has always been found...
Fakirs who dally with venomous snakes take good care to defang them. The fangs are long, hollow teeth connecting with venom sacs in the snake's upper jaw. When the fangs puncture animal, fish or reptile the venom (in most snakes a yellowish fluid) is squeezed, like a hypodermic injection, into the victim's flesh. Hindus defang their serpents by searing the jaws with hot irons. Others rip the fangs out with pincers or flick a cloth at the snake's head until the fangs are caught in the cloth and yanked out. Defanged snakes quickly grow...
...they spoiled? . . . When they are ill, they have to go to hospital, to get the care that an ordinary Englishwoman . . . would get from her servant as a matter of course. . . . There are many towns in America without one single, solitary servant, towns where all the women have to do their own housework, cooking, most of the washing, and usually the gardening...
Adverse criticism, financial difficulties beset the German Grand Opera Company after its first performance. After one week it was necessary to dethrone Manager Blumental, place the company under the care of Concert Manager Sol Hurok, who said in part...