Word: uses
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...nine recitation-rooms, similar to those below, and six professors' retiring-rooms, furnished like the others. A broad corridor, similar to the one below, will run from end to end of the building, at the southern extremity of which will be an iron staircase running to the attic, for use in case of fire...
...does not reach with his back, buries his oar-blade at the beginning of the stroke, and takes his oar out too soon. Six has been obliged to stay out of the boat for a few days, and has got a little out of form; he does not use his back enough, pulls his hands in low down, and swings out on the full reach. Seven buckets, feathers under water, and fails to turn his oar enough at the catch. He is inclined to hurry the stroke. Stroke buckets, drops his head back at the full reach, and hunches...
STUDENTS are requested to remember that the chairs at the desk in the Library are for the use of the pages only...
SENIOR.[The writer of this letter has made a mistake in the use of the word "current." If he will turn to Worcester's Dictionary he will find that "current" means "now actually passing," and consequently it is incorrect when writing in April to speak of the "current month of February." His petition to the Directors reads as follows: "A claim of mine, made in the current month, for deduction on account of absence from February 14 to February 24, is disallowed, etc." The Directors naturally supposed that he had not handed in his petition until April, and so very...
...specimens, and mix with them a few thin and tough ones. If possible, have one or more of them boast that he knows nothing about speaking. Next proceed to make a small hole in the skull of each judge and draw out his brains. They are now ready for use. Place them under a slow gas fire from the speakers for two hours or more, and then remove them to another apartment. Plunge them at once into a stewpan, sprinkle in a liberal allowance of pepper, and let them simmer for just one hour by the watch. If the award...