Word: know
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...rope in good form, can put a greater strain upon the back and legs then they can bear. So great a strain could not be transferred to the back and legs because the rope would first slip through the hands. In three years at Exeter and two here, I know of only one man who was seriously injured...
...practically the same team. It is scarcely probably that either of these will consent to abolish an event the chances of winning which are so greatly in their favor. Then, Yale intends to enter a team at Mott Haven, and a programme of class pulls has been arranged. We know what Yale can do when she tries. What remains for us to do is to try-coupled with a firm determination to win. And if we train carefully and faithfully we can make as creditable a showing in the future as we have in the past...
...business in Boston on his own account, took with him, drafting off into his own business, most of the best clerks and employees of the Co-operative, and turned most of the work of the Society over to new hands. No store or business house could stand that, you know. It means that the process of selection which has been going on for years under the superintendent, and which resulted in a pretty good set of employees, now redounds to the benefit of the superintendent's new private business; and it means that the thorough knowledge acquired of the routine...
...this; and that Mr. Waterman, as business men and business methods go, is not open to severe censure. Perhaps those clerks would have gone to Mr. Waterman's even it the directors had cut loose from Mr. Waterman entirely and offered higher wages all around. We outsiders do not know...
...Society is in a shaky condition, naturally, but I should hate to see it closed up. The undergraduates don't know how things were before its existence, and how many thousands and thousands of dollars have stayed in the pockets of the students that would have gone to Sever and often Cambridge tradesmen. Let the Society stop and the prices will go up all around...