Word: maidening
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...dance around the Liberty Tree, which involved holding hands and skipping about and jumping frantically to get hold of a piece of a wreath. This, surely, is progress. And in the nineteenth century President Lowell exulted "What a glorious object is a Senior on Class Day to a maiden of sixteen." Today, there will probably not be a girl under eighteen in Harvard Yard, and this, too, is progress. It is the sort of progress that can create confidence in the future of Harvard College and in the future--all the more unlimited because unnumbered--of the institution of Class...
Teacher Fisher, raised in Volens by a bachelor uncle and a maiden aunt, hopes to study for an M.A. at either Columbia or the University of Chicago. But he will come back to a country school ("That's where I want to be"). He doesn't worry much about his $1,650 salary: "I didn't enter teaching to get rich...
...Anglicized spelling of Markusha, diminutive of Mark (her maiden name...
...horses for Tom McCaffery, who paid him $15 a week and swore he'd never make a jockey. Eddie used to cry over the belittling he got. At 15 he was in Agua Caliente, broke and homesick, when he finally won his first race, on a four-year-old maiden named Eagle Bird. Then he drove up to Tanforan, Calif., to take a job with Clarence Davison, a "gypsy" horseman who taught him the ABCs of being a jockey...
...annual maiden handicap will be run from the foot of Tower Court hill to the Chapel. Starters affirm that the race will be held as announced no matter how many obstacles the local weather bureau decides to provide...