Word: look
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...food still remains the same, in spite of the predictions of many who did not favor the plans of the directors. We are glad to see that complaints have not been frequent during the first week of the new regime, and hope that affairs will continue to look as prosperously after the vacation as they do at present...
...than herself, but for inexperienced girls, with no knowledge of the world or its ways, it would be entirely different. Again, we say that people may express their pretty sentiments with the utmost eloquence, may utter their indignation for everything that savors of prejudice or injustice, but if they look the matter sternly in the face they will perceive that there are disfiguring wrinkles that all the cosmetics of art cannot drive away. Human nature is human nature, and no human power can ever conquer it. It displays itself despite every effort to hide it beneath a flimsy veil that...
...could persuade themselves to partially abandon their desperate attempts to be funny, to give their readers interesting and occasionally amusing articles - at least readable articles - and that, too, without falling back to the standard of pretentious heaviness of their Western exchanges. If they want models and examples let them look up certain of their own files of former years, and, if they can do no better, imitate the work done there. But as for the kind of matter they print now, who believes that such inanity is called for or enjoyed by the smallest class of readers in this university...
Then W - reminds us daily with his arms, made to look like the arcs of a never-to-be-completed circle, that there still exists such a thing as the "Harvard swing" and that it is our duty to perpetuate this peripatetic peculiarity...
...should we have known, again, that to look like a light green caterpillar was the duty of every devotee at the shrine of Fashion, were it not that Y - kindly reminds us of the fact three times...