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Word: working (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...first edition of Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge's work has been sold, and a second edition will soon be published...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 3/22/1878 | See Source »

Many of us noticed that in the last rhetoric examination those who had read and heard good English generally had good marks. Some, who by application and hard work had in other subjects done well, were surprised and provoked by their low standing. In this way only can we account for the fierce attack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 3/22/1878 | See Source »

...mantle, and I am asked "how much I take," it is not very hard to part with them. Or when our minstrel delicately intimates that he would like to find an old coat lying around somewhere, the article needed is generally found, even if it requires a little missionary work among one's neighbors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NICHOLAS. | 3/22/1878 | See Source »

...Goddard, '79, he will soon have to be replaced by some one who has had more experience in boating. In the very next sentence he laments the fact that, without a coach, the crew is doing but poorly, which is just another way of saying that Mr. Goddard's work amounted to nothing. Now, besides the very questionable courtesy of sending such a statement to a newspaper, even if that statement were true, the writer of the letter was either ignorant of the actual facts of the case, or else guilty of intentional misrepresentation. The truth is that when...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/22/1878 | See Source »

...advantages to be gained which are worth consideration. This plan would do away with the worry, excitement, and luck which attend every entrance examination. It would remove the feeling that these examinations are the object of all labor, and that after they have been passed there is no more work to be done, - a feeling which is prevalent among the men who come here, and which does not wholly disappear until the Annuals. Again, there would be less of cramming on special points, and of disregard for everything not likely to be on the examination-papers. And, finally, it would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/22/1878 | See Source »

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