Word: submitting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...members of the O. K. Society respectfully submit the following petition to your honorable bodies...
...Felton and in several Cambridge dwellings. The necessity of extreme care has been strongly emphasized the past few months, and all who contemplate having their rooms newly papered may well take every precaution for their health. We are surprised that the proprietors of Felton should have neglected to submit papers, which were to be hung on walls in the building, to a most careful examination...
...saying would have had some value. "A man has two lungs, two kidneys, two hemispheres to the brain, and two sides to his body generally, but only one stomach." Let him then deal very gently with that one. All solid food should be thoroughly chewed, in order to submit the insoluble starch of vegetables to the action of saliva, converting it into soluble sugar, and to divide the nitrogenous food so as to render the access of gastric juice to all particles of it easy, on its arrival in the stomach. When a large amount of ice-water is taken...
...speak of a few new year's resolutions, which would, we think, benefit our friends. First, are the overseers capable of turning over a new leaf? Appearances say, no; but, as appearances are often deceitful, we would hope, yes. As a new year's gift to them we would submit our prayer petition, and would hope that they may be so influenced by seasonable ambition that something new may be recorded of them, that they have actually considered our request and have recognized its force. Then there is the conference committee. The advice of Demosthenes would be a good...
...would be of great benefit to all who may attend them; for example, those on "Torts" and "Criminal Law and Procedure." At present some twenty men from the college are attending these lectures, and they find them interesting as well as instructive. It often happens that a man will submit to much more abuse from another than his inclination would allow were he not in ignorance of how far the law will permit him to go in redressing his wrongs...