Word: checked
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...fail to bear the burden of others' mistakes? And do not tell me it is but a senseless object. No, take my word, it broods over all these secrets that are trustfully committed to its keeping; it ponders anxiously over the remedy to be applied here, or the check there. It has a soul. It is not an it, but an It, with a big I. It feels, and feels deeply. Its interest is personal, too. Eagerly It scans the faces of those that approach, finding in all something to sympathize with, something to pity, something to love. Many...
...most difficult part is the stopping. When you reach Parker's you are shot out of the tube at a very rapid rate, and if there were nothing to check your velocity you would be dashed to pieces. This is obviated by having a proctor stand at the tube, not to catch, but only to retard...
...Dean's Report we are told that the semi-annual period of examinations was shortened in order to check a "serious diminution of the time for instruction." That the expansion of the elective system had made this step necessary, no one will deny; and the scheme of groups, far from being open to criticism, is to be approved, because it allows an indefinite increase of the number of the electives and extension of the time for examinations, if the Faculty have a mind to grant it. Shortening the period for the mid-years was, therefore, a matter of expediency...
...check that astonished the cashier...