Word: kissing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...exactly sixty-eight feet distant. It takes two minutes and twenty-two seconds for the sound to reach him. - Find from this the velocity with which a woman's voice travels. A woman arrives at the depot three minutes ahead of train time; she has to kiss seven persons, say good-by to thirteen others, send her love to twenty-two relatives, and see to four parcels; she accomplishes it all and has forty-one seconds to spare to tell a dear friend how to mix seven different ingredients into a mince pie. - How long did it take the train...
...another subject, - poetry. It seems that our few bits of verse have tempted the rhymsters to a considerable extent, and we are only sorry that their poetical efforts had not been confined to writing senior class songs. One contributor sends in "A Miss," as a complement to "A Kiss," in a late number...
...drnm. Why is a kiss like rumor? Because it flies from mouth to mouth. Why is it like a sermon? Because it requires two heads and an application...
What is a kiss? A monosyllable form of communication, composed only of labials, frequently used as a conjunction, although an article, and more common than proper. (To be continued.) - [Harvard Herald.] It would be a poor kind of a kiss, if it wasn't to be continued! [Phila...
...partly describe what's contained in a kiss...