Word: mined
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that inveterate joker, because it revealed his method of literary composition when he was having the greatest difficulty in phrasing the narrative to suit him. From Whittier came the manuscript of several poems, together with a letter suggesting that one of them is of a class of poems of mine which are rather un-Quakerish.' Thackeray is represented by a bit of the 'Roundabout Papers,' Sydney Smith by his 'Letter to the Pennsylvanians' who had repudiated a state loan, and George Eliot by 'Agatha.' Charles Reade's first draft of 'The Box Tunnel' is accompanied by two letters, expressing...
...cases in which no actual wounds were produced by missiles, a large number were due to falls, chiefly from horses or into trenches, and to men being thrown down by a mine or large shell or bomb explosion near by. Also there were a few simple surgical conditions, as appendicitis and hernia, demanding surgical treatment. Many of the cases presented more than one wound, there being 670 instances of medical or surgical conditions in 383 cases...
...cases on which we have full records 318 received actual wounds by missiles--as follows: Rifle ball, 128 Shrapnel ball, 31 Shell fragment, 133 Shell fragment and rifle ball, 5 Shell fragment and shrapnel, 1 Doubtful, 5 Bomb fragments, 9 Hand-grenade, 3 Barbed wire, 1 Mine explosion, 1 Revolver ball, 1 Total...
Harvard students, since the war started, have been tagged, flagged and flowered indiscriminately to support various movements. It is undoubtedly the duty of college men to help every good cause. But the idea that the purse of the ordinary college man is a gold mine of unfathomed depth should not be overlooked by the next man who compiles a book entitled "One Thousand and One Common Mistakes...
...have sent his number to Mr. Tibbetts. The officer informed me that it was a nightly occurrence! Think of it! I would not have believed it had I not seen it with my own eyes. He said it was the Lampoon Building, and then I understood. A friend of mine who once handed in a joke to the Lampoon says that he has heard that there is hardly a man on the board who has not defiled his lips with liquor. Suppose the Boston papers should hear of this! Harvard's standing in the West and South would be seriously...