Word: civility
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...girls who were just beginning to live was embarrassing no doubt, but he got through that trial well. After graduating from the Scientific School, he entered the coast survey, and presently turned up in California, where he lived for some time. He had originally meant to be a civil engineer and to go onto some of the railroads, thinking the west a great field, but he inevitably drifted into his father's interests, came home in the autumn of 1860, was engaged to be married to Miss Anna Russell, and was married in November of that year...
Government.--*Civil Government; the United States, Great Britain, Germany, France, and Switzerland, Dr. A. N. Holcombe...
...here in America, and especially in New York, in nine cases out of ten, one cannot get a civil answer to a civil question. In Europe the reverse is the rule and often mere strangers will go quite out of their way to do what to us would seem an extraordinary act of courtesy...
...Smith started his career as a civil engineer. He later gave up this for painting, and has done much landscape work in water colors and has lectured on art subjects. Mr. Smith is perhaps best known as an author. Among his works are "The Tides of Barnegat," "Colonel Carter's Christmas," "The Under Dog," and "The Wood Fire...
...these two essentials of the successful civil engineer Robert Fulton was supremely qualified, and it was his mastery of the possibilities as well as the principles of his invention that has made him famous when his predecessors have been forgotten