Word: solids
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Locke prefaces his "Thoughts Concerning Education" with a statement concerning the importance of health: "A Sound Mind in a Sound Body is a short but full description of a happy State in this World"; and then he goes on, advancing more advios: "Whatever he eats that is solid, make him chew it well. We English are often from whence follow Indigestion and other great inconveniences. . . His Drink should be only Small Beer. . . . Let his Bed be hard, rather than Quilts and Feathers". The last suggestion that he makes is the only one with which the author...
Chicken in every form-a recent glossary of American for English tourists defines "chicken" as a "fowl of any age"-fried, fricasseed, roasted, burnt, or raw, won the day above all comers. Turkey, sliding along on grease, captured second; pork and beans, with the solid support of the Boston delegation, came in a good third; and corned beef and cabbage finished fourth. Water came in last, making, however, a game fight with ice water. Never was a more conclusive victory won. Long live King Fowl...
Precedent favors Harvard. For many years Princeton has been at its best against Harvard; Yale at its best against Princeton; and Harvard at its best against Yale. And only one Yale victory over Harvard in thirteen years bears proof that the precedent has a solid foundation. And precedent in the case: John Harvard vs. Eli Yale is to be maintained...
...Thoughts of Youth" is a moral exhortation. Each essay abounds in solid morality, and the whole sets up a code of morals and a standard of conduct excellent for the practice of the young and the study of their parents...
...until a few years ago, when the rule requiring a reading knowledge of Latin for entrance to college was repealed, was its full meaning apparent. Even now to most minds a liberal education, without a knowledge of Latin, is like the house built upon sand,--without a solid foundation...