Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...broke the engagement to play with the New Yorks at Staten Island, Saturday, on account of the rain. They would have played as follows: goal, Borsal: point, R. Church, cover point, Emaos; first defence, Blackwell; second defence, Whelaker; third defence Legur. Cotes, Pastor; third attack, Riggs, captain: second at tack. C. Bliss; first attack, E. Bliss; second home, S. Hodge; first home, Knox. The loss of the Hodges, and Cook and Cowan is felt. The twelve this year is comparatively light and there will have to be less body checking...
...successful lawyer breaks down in middle life. Intellectual effort alone will rarely kill. It is anxiety that kills. The law is not infinite. An enlightened understanding and command of it is possible. Charm of voice and manner is desirable, but not necessary to success. A soothing and composed manner, tack, and good judgment especially, are desirable. Successful lawyers are, as a rule, honest men. Great chances don't announce themselves before hand. You must have the thing on your mind all the time if you would succeed. The law is the place of thinkers, not often of poets or artists...
...Conference Committee has now been deliberating for several months on the marking system without drawing any perceptible conclusions therefrom, except that it is well to make haste slowly. The real trouble seems to be that all this time they have been working on the wrong tack. It would be far better for them to spend their time in raising the standard of knowledge and incidentally improving the marking system. It is vastly more important that men should acquire much useful knowledge than that they should get high marks. If nothing more than an improvement of the marking system be desired...
...soon as this resolution was passed there was a fierce attempt to tack an amendment to it, resolving that the students desired and hoped for ultimate executive powers. Before this matter could be fully discussed, the meeting adjourned, and the question was postponed till the next meeting...
...shout, as loudly as is consistent with propriety, through her speaking trumpet, and the firegirls, after putting on their rubbers and waterproofs, will connect the water pipe-for it would be hardly delicate to refer to it in public as "hose"-and turn on the water. Armed with large tack hammers, the firegirls will break open doors and windows and place step ladders against the wall of the burning building to assist the inmates to escape. That the firegirls should actually ascend the step ladders in the full gaze of the public, and while the fierce light of the fire...