Word: utmost
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...love, to use my utmost strength...
...ardent advocate of cremation could wish. Locked in their rooms, and in deep sleep, they could only be aroused to find escape impossible; the entries and stairways would act as most efficient chimneys, and the draught through them would draw the flames up from story to story with the utmost rapidity, effectually closing the only means of escape...
...appropriate and scholarly garment of the gown. The attempt, however, proved futile, because the few men interested in the matter allowed the opportunity of making the change to slip away, through their inactivity in canvassing the subject, and in bringing its merits before the majority, who looked with the utmost indifference upon any plan for the restoration of a costume eminently that of scholars, and in perfect accord with academic exercise. This inactivity on the one hand and indifference on the other having resulted in the abandonment of the project last year, it now remains for the Senior class...
...about with cigarettes in their months, chattering idle nonsense, rather than to devote their spare time to invigorating exercise. As to our training it is merely farcical; there were men on the University Crew last year who scarcely made any professional training, and who indulged in dissipation with the utmost sang froid...
...will see the necessity of lending us some aid. In case it should not be found possible to raise the requisite amount for the purchase of a paper boat, the shell of last year will have to be used. We thoroughly believe, however, that the graduates will do their utmost to prevent us from being reduced to this discouraging necessity...