Word: enough
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...place. As each man's acquaintance is different from that of his neighbor, and as each man's opinion is generally formed in a manner peculiar to himself, a conscientious adherence to the last method would tend to produce a number of candidates positively appalling. Most are sensible enough to perceive this, and most cast their votes for regular nominees, although cases have been known in which infatuated persons have unsuccessfully backed a single idol for every office on the list...
...suppose most of you have an idea that Canada is such a place, and that you would be as willing to live at the North Pole as there. Let me drive this notion out of your head, that is, if you are men enough to acknowledge you are in the wrong. When we have winter there we have it in earnest, and there is usually plenty of snow, ice, ay, and cold; we don't very often have any of your Boston half-and-half winters, where it is so cold that you cannot keep warm when there...
...their shingles with gray passe-partouts; when they have carelessly slung any medals that they may possess over the shingles aforesaid, and when they have put photographs of a popular actress or two - probably Rosina Vokes, and some loose character in tights - on their mantelpieces, they have paid attention enough to aesthetics. They appear to regard pictures, and decorations in general, as convenient inventions to fill bare walls; they appear to decorate their rooms, if they take the trouble to decorate them at all, with little more appreciation and intelligence than were used by the wealthy gentleman who purchased...
...complimentary resolution in place of the pure gold of the feeling that no class should go out into the world's struggle and temptation without thanksgiving for the blessings of the past, and earnest, heartfelt prayer for aid in the future. If this feeling is not strong enough in a class to induce it to repress with just indignation all mockery of an office that ought to be considered one of the most honorable positions that an undergraduate can hold, I think that the minority commit a great error in asking, as a favor, the majority to allow the continuance...
...certainly voted very impulsively at our meeting, yet I think that it would prove better to reconsider a hasty action than to have gone on in the old routine without giving the subject proper consideration. It is still possible for the Class Committee, if they find a feeling strong enough to justify them, to call a meeting at which the question may be discussed with proper care, and a decision reached that is of more value than a momentary impulse in a blind copying of an old custom...