Word: hands
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...3tDOMESTIC LAUNDRY. - All hand work. Sweaters and fine flannels a specialty, washed without shrinking. Work called for and delivered. Satisfaction guaranteed. Send address on postal...
...less prominent nature than the athletic sports, it supplies a distinct need in the University. Last year more men applied for membership than could be accommodated in the limited space which the gymnasium affords and we therefore urge upon men who wish to join the class to hand in their names at once...
...Reception of Students was clearly needed. Newcomers found it harder and harder to adapt themselves to the complex condition which they met; all were inconvenienced and not a few were disheartened. To do away with this state of things, a few members of the Faculty took the matter into hand and put their sympathy into definite form. They bethought themselves of what new students wanted to know, they gathered the needed information, and secured means for easily communicating it to students...
...nothing else can, not only that there is a best way, but that it is the only way. Those who have tried it know too well how easy it is to grasp the verbal meaning of a sentence or of a verse. That is the bird in the hand. The real meaning, the soul of it, that which makes it literature and not jargon, that is the bird in the bush which tantalizes and stimulates with the vanishing glimpses we catch of it as it flits from one to another lurking-place...
...roots secrete food and thereby transmit life to the plant, yet the joyous consummation of that life is in the blossoms, which alone bear the seeds that distribute and renew it in other growths. Exercise is good for the muscles of the mind and to keep it well in hand for work, but the true end of Culture is to give it play, a thing quite as needful...