Word: frolick
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Originally little more than a farmer's calendar, The Old Farmer's Almanac soon began to show its author's convictions. In 1808, taking up the controversy of public v. private schools, he observed: "Fun, frolick and filigree are too much practised at the academies for the benefit of a farmer's boy. Let them have a solid and useful education." Eleven years later he was moved to warn: "Either the body or the mind must be engaged in honest industry; for idleness is like grog -take nothing else and-'you're gone...
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