Word: putting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...together. "Not so," replied the Sagacious Brute. "I am an upper-class Animal, and if I accompanied You, my air would be so Awkward from shame at the company I was in, that you would be at once Recognized for the Ass that you are. Therefore, I pray you, put away Ambition." Thus saying, he left the Aspiring Innocent a Sadder, but alas! not a wiser child...
...those who adopt it. So far as can be ascertained, the substance of what the Corporation wish to do is this: if each officer or instructor in the University will set aside five per cent of his salary for investment, the Corporation will add five per cent and put this sum out at compound interest, thus forming a kind of Savings Bank. Whenever an officer or instructor ceases to be such, he must, unless he has served the number of years requisite for retirement, withdraw his individual fund at the same time. And at the death of a fund-holder...
...Professor Newcomb is not, and does not pretend to be, a lecturer. If the University Lectures are to be a success, the College should engage men who not only have a sufficient knowledge of their subject, as all the lecturers thus far have had, but are able, 1st, to put what they know in an intelligible form; 2d, to deliver it so that they can be heard, and, if possible, so that they can hold the attention of their audience. If it is impossible for the College to secure such men, although other organizations seem to find no difficulty...
NOTWITHSTANDING reports to the contrary, work in the Gymnasium is progressing. The netting in the Nine's practice-room has been put in place, and the base-ball men practise there every day. The bowling-alleys would have been opened for use after the Thanksgiving recess, but the men charged with their preparation did not do their work well, and portions of it must be altered before the alleys can be used. The straight smooth alleys and the handsome scoring-slates offer an agreeable contrast to the irregular uneven alleys and unsightly blackboards of the old Gymnasium...
...stout wooden box, which is guided in its rise and fall by steel rods. When not in use this box rests on a rubber pad preventing the disagreeable jerk and jar which invariably ensued when the weight was allowed to descend a little too far. The weights can be put in or removed from this box at the pleasure of the one using it. This renders it possible for any man to use any of the machines, and again effectually stop monopoly. The boxes for clothing are roomy and fastened by padlocks...