Word: rigging
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...system. Four of the men rowed last year, but this only renders matters more difficult, for they are so firmly set in their old ways that it will be double work to instill the new method into their minds. The system I advocate is essentially English, except as we rig the boat, the foot boards are nearer the seats than those in England. Then, again, we use a shorter oar by two or three inches than the English oarsmen...
...generally known that a set of tables has been prepared, which is of great assistance. These tables are simply lists of rhymed words, ingeniously arranged. The College papers will send them free to any address. Paste them in the fly-leaf of your Rig-Veda, or some other book in constant use, so that, at any moment you will be able to find the proper word. [And here it should be remarked that, granted the word, you have the poem; for thought (that is, a concept) is entirely out of place in a work of the imagination.] There are other...
...from the question-man of '83). In the Rig Veda. At least, I don't see why it shouldn't be there. I'll question Professor X. on the subject in the next recitation in chemistry...