Word: washing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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While all will acknowledge that undoubted advantages are derived from the writing of themes, the system of invariably giving low marks, the custom of correcting an exercise until it resembles a map of Ancient Greece or a Chinese wash-bill, certainly has its bad results...
...Wash down a rarebit cooked by Moriarty
...country, had, while his troops were encamped in the College buildings, been seized with a severe attack of his monomania, and had gone to whittling the tree or otherwise mutilating it with edged tools; or if the early College presidents had been in the habit of hanging their monthly wash upon its swaying branches, - then, and in any similar case of sacred historic association, not only would I decry any attempt of ruthless vandalism to bring its existence to a premature end, but I would suggest that to its topmost boughs there should be attached a series of stone tablets...
...willing and eager to pay the rent for it, - does it not seem that a man who has really spent labor and money upon improving a piece of ground, has a better claim to it than one who merely is the first to get out his white-wash in the fall or spring...
...latter getting a slight advantage at the start. Both men were rowing a very rapid stroke when, in less than a minute, Griswold caught a "crab" and shot into the water. He was helped out by some spectators in a boat near by, and his shell - the right wash-board of which was smashed - was towed ashore. Hall consented to start again, but as Griswold refused, Hall rowed over the course alone, and was awarded the prize...