Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Emerson, it is said, keeps a huge note-book by him night and day, in which to record every brilliant thought, and whenever he has filled a dozen pages in this way he selects a title at random, and publishes them as a new essay. Smith was following, in a measure, this plan. Every incident in the barn-yard, every narrow escape from a mowing-machine, was booked for future use. Such is the devotion to art which every literary man feels...
...school from the time they are big enough to run alone, pick out their studies for them without consulting their own wishes, give them no chance to learn anything outside of books, treat them as mere cramming machines, and then, after this process has gone on ten or a dozen years, you suddenly remove all restraints and say, 'It is a very difficult thing to lay out a course of study properly, so use all wisdom, and Heaven bless you, my dear.'" Here my aunt gave an explosive snort of indignation. "What wonder," she continued, "that half the number wish...
...students would be more particular in both these respects, and if they would not take down a half-dozen books when they use only one, a great many more men would be benefited by these reference books, and the object of the professors in placing them aside would be more nearly realized...
...propelled by arms that, from the splashing of the oars, seemed inexperienced. A few fellows in rowing-clothes were lounging about the floats and gangways, waiting for others to come and help form a crew. Soon the words, "Get ready, fellows!" struck my ear, and I saw a half-dozen stalwart forms hasten up the stairs to the dressing-rooms. In a few minutes they appeared in their rowing-clothes, and took their places beside a ponderous craft, called the "Barge," which, with its iron keel, outriggers, and inside fixtures, looked more like a Rebel war-ram than a practical...
While some twenty men were engaged in subjecting a few inoffensive youths to various indignities, half a dozen members of the class entered the room and requested their classmates to leave the Freshmen alone. The effect was entirely satisfactory. The hazing party withdrew, and the men of '81 were left to retire to their peaceful beds at whatever hour they pleased...