Word: coarser
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...long service at the machines. What is also wanted is that the Americans should cater a little more to foreign peculiarities when manufacturing for export. Moreover, New England should try and take the place of the fine English goods which would not then have to be imported. The coarser work should be relegated to the southern mills now springing up. In this way there would be no internal competition between the sections and the money for imports would be saved...
...speaks a number, which is the distinguishing mark of the student. The machine talks three languages, Latin, German, and English." The next curiosity was an ancient mummy, bandaged with red tape. "This mummy has an interesting history. Its name, written on the bandage there, has been variously interpreted as Coarser and Forcer, though the balance of scholarship favors the latter. It was undisputed autocrat of the Great American College for many years; but finally its course in a government lottery so disgusted its subjects that it was blown up one night by bombs in the great square of the College...