Word: outlet
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Excursion to the Mohawk Valley, N. Y., conducted by Professor W. M. Davis. Special features: The Former outlet of Lake Ontario...
...Cowley, to whom the Muse gave every gift but one, the gift of the unexpected and inevitable word. Nor can mere originality assure the interest of posterity, else why are Chaucer and Gray familiar, while Donne, one of the subtlest and most self-irradiating minds that ever sought an outlet in verse, is known only...
...driftmarks of civilization. The word chimney, for example, coming into English from the Latin by the way of Italian and French, gives us good ground for suspecting that the mass of the population of Saxon England before the Norman conquest got rid of their smoke by the less ingenious outlet of door and window. In cordwainer (still the legal designation of shoemaker) we are pointed to the fact that the people of Cordova made the best leather-a fame to which Morocco succeeded-hence Cordovannier, cordonnier, cordwainer. Cant perpetuates a sneer against the monks who did no work but singing...
...subject are very far from being mere theories. A young "buck," he says, comes to college full of life, and of the sense of his new-found freedom; he soon falls in with a crowd of others just like himself, and this crowd casts about for an outlet for their animal spirits. Then, before any harm is done, comes the call for candidates for the various foot ball teams. They join practice squads and are forced to keep regular hours, and to put by smoking and drinking and all their newly-acquired vices...
Another matter, too, relative to the gymnasium demands attention. The cement dripping floor just outside the shower-bath is not kept in proper condition. The outlet for the waste water is often stopped, and the floor itself sometimes far from cleanly. In this state of affairs something should be done. A little work would remedy the difficulties, but continued carelessness makes them only more obnoxious...