Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...coming out, caused inconvenience to a considerable number. It seems that not a few managed to gain entrance to the Hall in the afternoon without tickets, and hence the tickets gave out when being returned. The fault seems to rest upon the doorkeeper and the depravity of mankind...
...hope to obtain scholarships. They understand that the sum allowed for their education must be reduced to the lowest figures, and they are disheartened at finding that they have no chance of winning those tangible rewards which serve to incite other students, and without which the vast majority of mankind would cease from exertion...
...went home from dinner one evening contented with myself and at peace with all mankind - except Bartlett, Sever, and my washerwoman. I lit my pipe, took up the last Crimson, and prepared for a quiet evening when the suffering melodeon claimed and got as usual my undivided attention. The continued unhappiness of the poor creature touched my heart, and I was about to remonstrate with its heartless master when a new symptom of its disease appeared. The spasms of wheezing and coughing were interrupted by a buzzing, droning sound...
...knowledge that one man had of mankind...
...Bulletin Board from the front of University come pegging along towards us. He gave me welcome, and then sat down to wipe the perspiration from his forehead, and adjust his wooden leg. Not knowing exactly how to enter into conversation with him, I began on a subject in which mankind takes universal interest at a first meeting, and never thinks of again, - the weather...