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Word: worker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Kennedy, '89, is practicing as a substitute pitcher. He is a hard worker, but pitches widely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Yale Freshman Nine. | 4/26/1886 | See Source »

...ordinary diet should include all the factors which are found in the various tissues together with enough water to amply supply the system. Foods are divided into the nitrogenous or gluten-bearing class, such as meats, and the non-nitrogenous such as fats, starch, sugar, etc. A brain worker requires more fats, and a muscle worker more nitrogenous foods. Over brain exercise sometimes produces insensibility to hunger, and students, after light suppers and long night study, find themselves unable to sleep, although not conscious of lack of food. A light lunch is often a cure for this condition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Health and Strength. | 1/7/1886 | See Source »

These figures speak for themselves, and strongly testify to the late librarian's energy and enterprise. That he was a persistent and able worker is unquestionable; and no one can deny that in a large degree Harvard is indebted to him for what her library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Library. | 12/12/1885 | See Source »

...little drop at the catch, and does not swing back too far. 2: a strong man; rows pretty well; over-reaches somewhat and fizzles a little on the finish; his chief fault is that he does not pay attention to time or to the boat. 3: very hard worker, but gets in work at the wrong time; does not get weight on to his stretcher until half through his stroke; has bad jerk at finish; slumps badly at finish, and swings back too far; covers his blade well at the beginning. 4: works hard, and is getting a good deal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Freshman Crew. | 6/13/1885 | See Source »

...death of Aaron Rogers Crane the members of the senior class feel that they have lost a sincere friend, an earnest worker, and a Christian gentleman, -faithful, simple, pure; all who knew him were strongly attracted toward him, and his untimely end is felt as a personal loss; and the class desires to pay honor to his many noble qualities, to mark them as examples of manly virtue, and to tender its heartfelt sympathy to his parents in this their bitter hour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AARON ROGERS CRANE. | 6/11/1884 | See Source »

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