Word: usefulness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...double sculls, and two single sculls, with an average membership of fifty, - or each club can seat at any one time one third of its members. This number of boats is sufficient when there are no crews in training, and as long as the barges can be used by all members; but when the crews commence going out in the afternoon, then the number of boats is too small. Unless one happens to have rowed before, and has some skill in handling the oar, - unless one, in fact, is on either of the crews, - it is nearly impossible...
...hearts they use as stepping-stones...
...hearts they use as stepping-stones...
...effects of different kinds of food on the system, of the working of the glands, of the relation of the various parts of the body, we know almost nothing. In school we may learn that our body has many wonderful organs, but experience only teaches us to distinguish their use from their abuse...
...orphan withal, foolishly wishes for the riches of this world. By an ingenious process of castle-building she attains her end in about fifteen minutes; but the powers of earth, air, water, and fire - as exemplified in the sun - begin to send in such exorbitant tax-bills for the use of their respective elements, that she is fain to return to her former state, and to content herself with the hope of a future reward. The merits of this article are so delightfully uniform that it is almost impossible to choose any one passage for citation; but the manner...