Word: inch
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...left but to shave regularly or to let it grow. I chose the latter alternative. But, as every one knows, the most critical and unsatisfactory period in the growth of a mustache is from the time when it first makes its appearance till it has reached about an inch in length. At the end of the third week mine had reached more than half an inch, and I began to feel somewhat relieved, when suddenly I received an invitation to a grand evening party. Of course I could n't go with a half-grown mustache...
...started it again after that. This time it had fully reached an inch in length when I received a postal that our society-photograph was to be taken, so it had to come off again. Once more I had to go through the painful transition-period, and a third engagement compelled me to shave it off again. I am now getting desperate. Shall not try it again, but I have sent for some extra-adhesive court-plaster, flesh color, which I am going to paste on my upper lip. Perhaps that will keep the mustache from growing. If it does...
ENTRIES for the athletic contests to-morrow are as follows: 100-yard race, II; running high jump, 3; one-mile running-race, 6; running long jump, 3; hurdle race, 120 yards, over ten 3-feet 6-inch hurdles, 7; throwing a base ball, 8; two-mile running-race, 6; half-mile consolation race, 4; three-legged race, 7 pairs; three-mile walk...
...word "ready," remove your scarf (every one is obliged to put one on during an "easy"), settle yourself in your seat, grasp the handle of the oar, thumbs under, about a hand's-breadth between the hands, the outside hand an inch from the end of the oar. At the word "forward," slide up to your stretcher, knees well apart, body down between them as much as possible, arms at their fullest extent, wrists depressed slightly so as to have the outside edge of the blade an inch above the water, and the inside edge resting on the surface...
...necessity utterly unproductive of any result. If the refractory classes had intended to destroy all chance of their wishes being acceded to, they could not have contrived a more sure method than the extreme course which they have taken. The Faculty, after what has happened, cannot recede an inch consistently with the dignity of their position, and have absolutely no choice but to assert their authority. Even were it possible, would it be advisable to entirely suppress the military portion of the College curriculum? In this country the principle of trusting to chance is carried to an alarming extent...