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Word: sew (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Coast, which has figured so largely in Harvard legend, but many a student will be gladdened by the news that he need no longer dispose his trousers between the mattresses when he wraps the drapery of his couch about him. Moreover, "wives of the professors will mend clothes and sew on buttons free." Why wives? If daughters of the professors could be drafted for this activity, supported if need be by young society girls whose war work is now ending, the marriage rate of Massachusetts would go up with a bound, and there would be less complaint in future about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Hostess House. | 4/26/1919 | See Source »

...pass without adding to the University's score, for one touchdown was made in the first quarter, three in the second, two in the third and one in the last. In this scoring the work of E. L. Casey '19 and W. J. Murray '18, both of whom made sew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MASSACHUSETTS AGGIES POWERLESS AGAINST ELEVEN'S STRONG DEFENSE | 10/23/1916 | See Source »

...mere knowledge of the Pythagorean triangle relation or the binomial theorem is probably of less immediate value to the average graduate than the knowledge of how to sharpen a knife or to sew on a button," Dr. Moritz writes. "But has an exercise in fundamental thought processes they are invaluable to every individual, no matter what his ultimate work in life may happen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MATHEMATICAL STUDY JUSTIFIED | 6/12/1916 | See Source »

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