Word: feet
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Rule 4. Nothing heavier than light slippers or rubbers without heels allowed on the feet...
...would attain this longed for period of perfection we must begin by overcoming the difficulties which lie at our feet. We all want to begin at the top of the ladder without climbing up round by round through every obstacle and disappointment until we reach the goal...
...Donald preached for the last time this year at Vespers yesterday. He took his text from the story of Stephen's death,- "and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul." He said that these witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul." He said that these witnesses left their clothes with Saul because they feared that in the mob they might be stolen. Accordingly they left them with a man in whom they had perfect confidence, who they knew was in sympathy with them...
...college can do many things that in a civilian would certainly be much blamed and probably be severely punished. Now whenever a student does anything wrong he lays his reputation and his social position at the feet of his friends, trusting that in their hands he is safe. This safety a man cannot find here if he is, for example, untruthful; for, if there is one thing that Harvard University stands for, it is perfect truthfulness in every individual member and as a whole. Many things, however, the student feels that his fellows will regard leniently and accordingly...
...family. These fish are very rarely secured as specimens although in the waters about Madeira they are tolerably numerous. The reason why they are so difficult to secure is because their habits are pelagic and they appear only singly near the coasts. As they are from four to six feet long and large in proportion, they cannot be caught by ordinary means, and so escape. The above specimen came from Monterey Bay. The National Museum has the only other specimen of the moonfish in the United States. The collection of fishes there and in the Harvard Museum are the only...