Word: haired
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...least, that is the way it usually works out. Take Yale last year; she cleaned up at the short distances, and then won the four-mile championship. The year before Columbia was invincible over the short courses, and won the four-mile race at Poughkeepsie without turning a hair. So it goes, not invariable, to be sure, but with sufficient frequency to establish a fair presumption in its favor...
...Courtney's "Good-bye, Vera," is a hair-raising "Crook" story, with a beautiful girl, a diamond necklace, handsome young villains, hand-to-hand struggles, and a detective flashed on the screen in rapid succession. It is melodramatic-but successfully melodramatic...
Arthur Wilson in "Once from a Window" entertainingly describes an early spring dream of a very young bachelor and philosopher. The scene is among the roof tops surrounding Charles street jail. The heroine is seen but once and the "chatter of her blown hair" is "untranslatable...
...consumes strength and attention, and diminishes the efficiency of employees. The question has been solved by Dean Sabine, who, in 1895, began a series of experiments to determine the sound-absorbing qualities of various types of walls, floors, furniture and their coverings. The important result was the discovery that hair felt, when applied to the walls and ceilings, would practically destroy echoes or reverberations of all ordinary sounds, and thus reduce the total volume. Other fabrics, it was found, would absorb sound in lesser degrees...
...thorough schooling abroad had made him already proficient in Latin and Greek, but his son says: 'Agassiz had, however, no natural sympathy for the classics and the scientific trend given to his early studies had intensified a dislike of the subtle analysis, of language and the dryness of grammatical hair-splitting...