Word: gazed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...backs, when they look for a hole in the line-which is not often,-can seldom find one. The men play without a bit of snap or earnestness. They seem to think they can play hard when they choose, and at other times are at liberty to gaze around the field or do whatever else suits them best. This sort of work has lasted quite long enough and the sooner the captain and his men wake up to the fact that they have something to do besides amusing themselves, the better it will be for them and the less...
...none have suffered more than the ill-fated "university." The best of our colleges are as yet not equal to the true universities of England and Germany; but in spite of this we dub every little college with the awe-inspiring title of university, and then stand off and gaze at our work in fond admiration; and, in name at least. we place the Transylvania University of Kentucky, the East Tennessee University and the Upper Iowa University on an equal with their prototypes of Oxford, Berlin and Jena...
...American Association for the advancement of science. In 1884 his portrait, made in bronze, was presented to Harvard College. No tablet of bronze will be necessary to perpetuate the scientific fame of Asa Gray. It is well, however, that generations of scholars yet unborn may thus be able to gaze upon the gentle features of a man whom no one has yet surpassed in the lustre which he has shed upon their Alma Mater...
...voice, sometimes by pantomime. The two styles add variety to a pastime otherwise monotonous, and as disgusting as it is monotonous. If any of these peculiarly constructed individuals should chance to read this exhortation to those who possess independence, they would probably, in all due deference to their habit, gaze with that satirical look which years have perfected in them or their models upon this paper, and then mechanically would remark something in regard to an ass and the general imbicility of college papers, particularly the CRIMSON...
...human life within her in its most vivid, and eager, and critical time and shape, does a college most readily and thoroughly become the subject of the mysterious and beautiful process by which out of the confused and tumultuous experiences of countless men, there issues as sure as we gaze upon their one great image which is strangely at once the aggregate of embodiment of them and also something greater than them all, their protector and muse, their teacher, friend and mother. It is out of the infinite human experience and pathos of this place; it is out of this...