Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...however high his rank in class, will find there is only one employment - that of teaching - in which his college training alone, without a corollary of special study, will enable him to earn his living. He cannot put up a prescription or mend a chair, preach a sermon or shoe a horse, pull a tooth or play a super's part, without learning how; and his text-books have not taught him how. Whatever business or trade he may go into, he will find a crowd of youths, often the sons of wealthy men, learning as apprentices, from the very...
Mile Run. - Morison took the lead with Trask and Penrose following; second lap, Morison and Trask same order; Penrose dropped behind, retiring in the next lap on account of a broken shoe. Trask in the next two laps kept same place, and in fifth tried to pass Morison on the finish but failed, the latter winning in 4 minutes, 39 seconds, with Trask hard on his heels. The record of both competitors beats previous Harvard records...
...terrific boiler explosion occurred at Lynn yesterday morning, by which Goodwin Bros.' shoe factory was entirely demolished, the surrounding buildings shattered and several lives destroyed. The catastrophe was undoubtedly caused by low water in the boiler...
Contrived for the Poncas - that's where the shoe hurts...
Soft the music of thy Congress shoe...