Word: nails
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Coolidge received a very painful injury to his hand yesterday, losing a finger-nail...
...last number of the Nassau Lit. is quite entertaining. We think the writer of "Sensationalism in College Life" has "hit the nail on the head." We wish some of our friends would take the article to heart. "The Honest Italian Laborer" is a cleverly written sketch. We judge from the following that the Faculty has interfered with tennis at Princeton...
...celerity. But I had made all my arrangements for going ahead, and found it difficult to change my entire plan of proceeding so in the twinkling of an eye, as it were. Consequently I kept right on, as if nothing had happened; that is, I kept on till a nail protruding from the floor carried away the entire front of my vest, and a goodly portion of my trousers, and thus arrested further progress. I was quite willing to stop there, as I had become thoroughly convinced that there were other modes of transit, less rapid, perhaps, but quite...
...hand is of great utility, and vice versa, each person being able to find a hand according to his eyesight. Take the reverse side of the watch. By a graceful and easy pry with my thumbnail I open the cover. Let me here call your attention to this patent nail arrangement. It is so constituted that, by the act of prying the cover, a portion of the nail is removed, and you will readily see that by changing fingers in opening the cover, all necessity of cutting one's nails will be avoided, thus saving time and trouble. Upon opening...