Word: patient
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...course, circumstances alter all cases, but we cannot but feel deeply that only by much long-suffering and patient work our present religious system has been evolved, and we should be sorry if other colleges should be afraid to follow our methods for fear of being thought to imitate, - as sundry persons have suggested might be the case...
...were speedily lighted and every one prepared to endure the speeches as long as speeches were forthcoming. Even the departure of the president at half-past four did not break up the company, which sat without any display of weariness till half-past seven. Truly the Americans are a patient and much enduring race...
...value of repose, and he keeps his hands and head going till you are worn out with the very sight of his ineffectual labor to have you seize what he says. These are common faults and are met with constantly, and they are faults that with a little patient practice under competent guidance could have been avoided. Then there are the flagrant errors in pronunciation that we hear on all sides. Indeed, it is said on good authority that President Eliot and George William Curtis are the only speakers in this country who pronounce English with anything like accuracy...
...useless for us to try to award sufficient praise to the University nine. Their hard and patient work has been crowned by signal triumph. They have snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. They have played and won the hardest up-hill game in the steadiest manner possible. Time after time an error in one of these last five innings would have defeated us; but our nine never faltered for an instant, was never nervous or confused, and always did the right thing. Well, the most exciting game the association ever chronicled is over, and after our wild rejoicings...
...unconsciousness is concussion or vibration of the brain. It is a mistake to elevate the head or pour liquid down the throat in faintness; the middle of the body, on the contrary, should be elevated. The main thing to do in cases of stunning is to keep the patient at rest, and aid the breathing. Here also, no fluid should be given; especially are ammonia and alcoholic stimulants dangerous. The application of external warmth is excellent. Sprains and bruises are smaller injuries. A part that is sprained should not be used for an instant. In fractures, great care must...