Word: justness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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In the course of an hour or so we come to Staten Hook or Sandy Island, I forget which. A very pretty yacht comes alongside, and a man from our steamer (whom I have noticed talking with the captain on the bridge several times) gets on board of her. Probably...
After dinner I sit down by a mast and study Herbert Spencer on Style. (N. B. I was conditioned in Rhetoric.) Presently a very common-looking man shouts out, "Stand by to hoist that Spencer." Thinking he refers to my book, I secrete it in my coat-pocket. Several sailors...
*This question was actually asked on board one of the Cunard steamships when it was just leaving Sandy Hook.
SARATOGA, July 18, 1874.After the conduct of the Yale University Crew, not only during, but also at the conclusion of the race just completed, the Harvard University Crew refuse to entertain any challenge whatever from the Yale University Crew.
At the 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...