Word: manned
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...clinker-built boat about twelve feet long and four wide, with an experienced oarsman sitting in the stern, and two green hands, or otherwise, at the oars. I say "or otherwise," for even the members of the 'Varsity are tubbed up to the day of the race. When a man is given up as hopeless, he may amuse himself by going down the river in an eight or a four; but if a man in a scratch eight shows any approach to good form, rescue him, at once, and put him to tubbing. One great reason why boating...
...secure this, extend the hand, palm upward, and turn over the wrist only, leaving the fore-arm nearly horizontal. Coaches should insist on having the men swing their elbows close to their sides, and well past them; as this encourages a proper position of the arm. If a man does not "get the hands away" immediately, but "buckets forward" with the body, the hands are caught between the body and knees in an awkward position; some force is required to get them forward, and he has no time to begin the stroke properly, but must make a wild grab...
Which she does n't refuse. Then the ardent young man...
...should be our only occupation. Look at Charles Sumner and Andrew Johnson and-and Thoreau-and Margaret Fuller and Bayard Taylor and-and all our great statesmen who distinguished themselves by ordering executions-that is, by executing orders-with promptness and despatch. And our fair Boston maidens value a man for what he is worth, I mean not his income, but in-themes, and the calculus, and all that kind of thing,-not French polish,-in short, graduates should marry,-receive their marriage certificate and matriculation papers at the same time (I hope to get them next week, shall...
...journey is never unmingled with regret for the past. All men are sobered rather than exhilarated on the approach of any such epoch. The shadows are even stronger by contrast with the assumed gayeties of the occasion. These feelings are good. They are the true realities of existence. The man who is unaffected by them, on whom the past has no influence, is as ephemeral as the present in which he lives. He can claim no kinship to humanity...