Word: cocoa
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...method of instruction in Greek at Johns Hopkins University is thus commented on in a late number of the N. Y. Post: "The rooms are of a good size, well lighted and handsomely furnished. The cocoa matting of the average college class room is replaced by Brussels carpets; and cane-bottomed chairs are substituted for hard wooden seats. All the works in the university on philology are collected together in this one building. The student then has everything at his elbow. In the seminary library there are one thousand volumes, and in Professor Gildersleeve's study at least two thousand...
...clock in the evening is the time which public opinion fixes as the right moment to leave off work. Of course this is not always possible, but as a rule it is the sociable hour and the time for tea parties. Trays with materials for tea, coffee, or cocoa are sent round to the rooms; and as every one has a kettle of her own, tea can be made at any time, and this is generally a social meal, which two or three friends partake of together, enjoying the luxury of leisure after work. Once a week a practice...
...unable to reach the cerebrum. So thick was the cranium that the operators began to despair of finding any brain at all, and were about to relinquish their attempts, when a young medical student suggested that a charge of dynamite would perhaps do the work. By this means the cocoa-nut was successfully cracked, and a small cavity, no larger than a tennis-ball, was laid open. The matter therein examined was viscous, sprinkled with a fine metallic dust resembling brass. One of the surgeons, a clever psychologist, thought that undue conceit had caused the viscosity of the brain tissues...