Word: thicker
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...banquet Prof. Lowell responded for literature. "There is no country in the world that owes so much to literature as Scotland. I bring with me the felicitations of three American universities, and their Godspeed to the older university here. We feel as strong as ever that blood is thicker than water. I warmly reciprocate-and feel that I am expressing the feelings of Americans in so doing-the expressions of friendship used at this banquet...
...reform and consequent improvement, I would like to suggest another plan of accomplishing the desired result. It is, instead of tearing the tubs to pieces and resetting them satisfactorily, to place in the bottom of each of the tubs as they stand at present a thin slab of soapstone thicker at one end than at the other. This would carry the water off properly and would not cost more than can be afforded...