Word: children
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...children sport about those shrunken knees...
Still further, this philosophy is like Mrs. Winslow's soothing-syrup, - "Children cry for it." I mind me, as the Scotch would say, of an anecdote of my Freshman year, that may illustrate this...
...Graduates Performance, Saturday evening, March 4, 1876 at Beethoven Hall, Arthur Sullivan's operatta of "Cox and Box" will be given by former members of the H. P. C., for the benefit of the N. E. Hospital for Women and Children. In connection with this also will be given the monologue "The Elixir of Youth." Ticket; for sale at box office on and after Friday, March 3. General admission, 75 cents...
...side of the river they placed all the men, and upon the other side all the women. Munnee then took his place among the women, and Boshor among the men. At the end of a year the miraculous power of Boshor enabled her to bring forth as many female children as there were men, while the commerce of Munnee and the women produced an equal number of males. When these demigods were fully grown, Munnee placed a treasure in the hands of each woman, and thereby induced his sons to murder their mothers. Boshor at the same time aroused...
...solid, substantial intellectual food of every grade she can make a truly grand display. And why not grade the Yale collection according to the intellectual effort necessary to understand the writings of her great men? Let it begin with the spelling-book of Webster, over which the children of a past generation forgot their toys in their enthusiastic efforts to master the rudiments of English orthography; let it ascend through the grade of text-books to the dictionaries. Let the series extend in this regular grade through the numerous works in all departments of knowledge, in Chemistry, Physics, Geology, Language...