Word: sinks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...same proportion; do not, when they fail, go under so hopelessly, or take to drink or disreputable courses so often. They are supposed to do so, because when they do they are marked men, and their friends tell stories of them and lament over them, whereas their rivals sink under the waters silently; but as a matter of fact, they are ruined past hope in much smaller proportion. Granting other things equal, the chances of great success, these maintain, are greater for the graduates, while the chances of great failure are less; and those two facts - which we may remark...
...gentle strains sink deep in every heart...
...attempt was made to sink the ship John S. Shenney in mid ocean, by boring auger holes in her bottom. The second mate is suspected...
...Dresler of Columbia College says that he thinks that if girls and boys were fellow students in college the girls would sink to the level of the boys rather than raise them to the lofty heights upon which they themselves presumably abide, and he cites the Vassar tendency to imitate Harvard and Yale as evidence of the truth of his statement, mentioning hotel dinners with toasts and responses as especially worthy of condemnation. Possibly, if the boys and girls were in the same institution, the latter would content themselves with giving five-o'clock tea parties and similar entertainments...
...China sink into oblivion if you didn't meet...