Word: shaving
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...padding of the shoulder or throat. Suddenly a small tuft of hair seems to spring from the big man's head. "Halt!" cries his opponent's second. The swords are instantly stuck up by the seconds and the umpire steps up to examine the head. It was a close shave, but the skin is whole, so they start again. The men are now getting terribly excited. Breathless and panting they slash away at each other; and it is no easy matter for the seconds to stop them at the word "halt." - London Society...
...This working until breakfast with a wet towel around your head is very romantic when you tell it to your sympathizing lady friends, but it is of no use in actual practise. Finally don't study up to the last moment. Take a good breakfast then take a shave and a quiet smoke between 9 and 10 o'clock and then go into the examination room with a clear head and a calm philosophic frame of mind...
Last year we won with five firsts and five seconds; Yale was second, with four firsts and three seconds; and Columbia was third with three firsts and four seconds. This was a very close shave, for had Yale won any of the five events taken by Harvard, the great challenge cup would have gone to New Haven instead of coming back to Cambridge. Of the successful team of Harvard men last May, Goodwin, who won two of the first prizes, has graduated, as have two of the winners of second prizes, Allen and Mandell. Yale and Columbia have their teams...
...take and are so varied that they cannot become tiresome. All the signs can be read in the photograph as clearly as in the original, and snob. is forever sending the pictures to his fair friends, who wonder what on earth the sign of "Boarders Wanted," "Hair cut and shave, 50 ets.," or "Reserved for Ladies," can mean. I will say nothing about the uses of a camera during the summer, they are too obvious to mention; but if any one will call at my room I can show him photographs of all my summer "mashes," and few college...
...Princeton sophomores had a close shave in their foot ball game with the Columbia sophs. The score...