Word: laborers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...time to get a "bite" before a nine o'clock recitation, and it is a great nuisance to be obliged to spend half of their little time in looking at the clock, especially for a near-sighted man. It would be a great convenience, at but small expenditure of labor...
...sport to be enjoyable must be companionable, and it is not strange that the old individual style of canoeing fails to arouse a lasting-interest. Recent experiments and improvements in canoe sailing have introduced an entirely new phase of the sport, and removed a vast deal of unnecessary labor. We hear every summer of the pleasant cruises of countless clubs, yet nothing has ever been done here to inaugurate such a movement." Such considerations as these would apply with equal force at Harvard. There are many reasons why there should be a canoe club here; canoeing is emphatically a college...
Then there were little boxes in the window with odd labels, such as "Peerless Corn Salve;" "In Excelsis Bug Exterminator; buy it, try it, and be no longer annoyed with cockroaches in your kitchen;" "Patent Labor-Saving Cleaning Powder," with the face of a female with abundant hair reflected in a table-spoon, and the like...
There will be a general uprising of labor throughout the country in the spring...
...artistic manner, the orchestra is discreetly and always elegantly handled; but there is also a nearly total absence of that spontaneity, that musical humor and sparkling freshness, which made 'Die Fledermaus' so delightful. The score contains various pretty numbers, but they are all more or less the product of labor rather than of inspiration. The only exception is the waltz with which the second act closes, a most felicitous effort even for Strauss, though not even in this number does he approach the level of excellence which occurs at the same point in 'Die Fledermaus...