Word: desert
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Somebody or other once said that if a couple of Americans were shipwrecked on a desert island, they would at once proceed to organize a meeting. One would take the chair, the other would be secretary; and they would pass a series of formal resolutions, setting forth the dangers of their position, and the methods which they proposed to adopt to ward off starvation and death. There is a good deal of truth in this. We are so enamored of free institutions that we never like to do anything without the sanction of parliamentary forms. And when we find ourselves...
...crew can win the first position only by successive years of working together, the Yale and Cornell crews have plainly shown. For a man to row one year and then, when just brought to some excellence as an oarsman and prepared to be of value, for him to desert, is a culpable betrayal of his crew and of his college. It may be argued that a man has a perfect right to row or not; and so he has; but not to stop rowing when he has once commenced. His personality is merged in the crew, - a university institution. Having...
...CONSIDERATE Sophomore recently declined to write, on the ground that the columns were already filled with stupid articles. We would advise any reader not to set down any oasis in the desert as coming from this individual...
...nothink left a standin' within reach. In the foreground Lord Nelsing in the hagonies of death, and yet a-sayin' to the coxswain, who says, "Can I do anythink, Lord Nelsing?" says he. "Nothink," says his lordship, quite hearty-like, and dies. SCENE NO. 3: The Pelican of the Desert, as mentioned by the Prophet Job in the Hacts of the Apostles, derived from two Latin words - peli, fish, and can, can - signifying fish-can. By some commentators thought to mean that he can manage fish; but by others supposed to refer to the size of his enormous bill...
...such, and he should endeavor, by a more friendly association with his friends, to call into action those hidden springs of feeling which all possess to a greater or less degree, needing only culture to form the strong ties of friendships which are as oases along the otherwise desert path of life...