Word: cut
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...Owing to the fact that the past winter has been unusually trying to the Harvard constitution, much sickness and many unavoidable absences from college exercises have resulted. I have, therefore, just patented my AITEGRAPH (Greek for petition-writer); a machine simple in construction, warranted for four years, - with a cut attachment, for recording absences from prayers, and a register, for noting down the rapidity of process and the number of impressions made. My invention is of such a sort that anybody, without previous instruction, can, within three minutes, produce a perfect petition...
UNFORTUNATELY for those students who take their courses, there are several instructors who pay no attention to any one's comfort but their own. This has been especially noticeable of late, when, by not posting a "cut" on the bulletin board, the professors have obliged students to tramp up to the Botanical Garden, through the mud, only to find that there was no lecture. It seems to us that when recitations are held so far away as this, or at the Zoological Museum, due notice ought to be given if the instructors intend beforehand to be absent. But they...
...twenty," said Chaucer, shoving his chips out. The chips were made of slabs of doughnut from the kitchen, cut thin, and beautifully polished to look like ivory. Epaminondas went him twenty better, and they continued to pile up chips in a dreadfully reckless manner, until there were doughnuts enough on the table to have killed all the ostriches between Cairo and Capetown...
When you shall give a cut...
...Come, cut, you scrub, light out, walk off upon your...