Word: groaning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...York, who also delivered the address. His text was taken from the ninth chapter of the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans. He said that there are two creations in man: the body and the soul. The first is destructible and the second attains joy eternal. We groan because we have two different natures, that there is no unity in us; but who would not wish to take part in his soul's redemption? People who have turned from bad to good are often haunted by their evil thoughts and feelings of old. This is because their bodies...
...looked sad and goreful. Sophomore Parker performed ground and lofty tumbling. He was occasionally seen to rise in the air and sail horizontally over the outskirts of the cloud. He usually came down on a freshman's head. When he did the freshman fell, 'and, falling, he uttered a groan and darkness covered his eyes.' In one of sophomore Parker's leaps he jumped clear out of his trousers, and thence-forth his costume was airy if not elegant...
These remarks and this new remedy seem especially timely at present, for we are now facing this "mucker" problem in all its immensity, and we shall continue to face it and groan under our inflections in all probability until the November winds sweep the "mucker" away, unless some such strong measures are adopted...
...from his lips escaped a groan...
...lips repressed the rising groan...