Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...most cases due to indifference on the part of undergraduates. Men who despise personal uncleanliness will sit in a poisonous atmosphere and watch unconcerned some enemy of the race cut off all hope by fastening down the last window. In winter the desire for warm air, however thick it may be, has a superficial excuse, but in mild weather only the confirmed poison-inhaler can excuse the condition of many of our class-rooms...
...paragraph, is scarcely gratifying to the generally cock-sure twentieth century optimist. "The bark that carries man and his fortunes traverses an ocean where the winds are variable and the currents unknown. He can do little to direct its course, and the mists that shroud the horizon hang as thick and low as they did when the voyage began...
Several changes have been made in Sever Hall. Room 35 has been divided into two lecture halls by a thick wood and plaster wall. The stairways where they were badly worn have been repaired...
...rink in the Stadium has been flooded, and there is a good foundation of ice, but practice will not be held there until another thick layer of ice is formed. Notices for today's practice will be posted for the University squad at Leavitt & Peirce's, and for the Freshmen at the Rendezvous...
There are still clothes needed to fill the boxes which are to be sent out by the Phillips Brooks House Association to various charitable societies and institutions throughout the country. A box is to be sent to the Seamen's Friends Society, for which thick suits, overcoats, and heavy shoes are desired; small suits are needed for a case which is to be sent to the City Prison of New York; for an anti-tuberculosis institution in New Hampshire, heavy overcoats, thick clothes, and sweaters are in demand; and medium weight business suits are desired for a box which...