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...those days, and people made fewer engagements. However, old views of the "Colleges at Cambridge" show hands on the clock as late as 1790. They apparently even worked, as various hours may be seen in different pictures. The architects at Robinson Hall believe that the mechanism got out of fix early in the 19th century, and was never repaired. If this is the case, it shows exceedingly poor spirit in the Maintenance Department. An old alibi in the archives speaks of removing the machinery to the church opposite, but the church was not built until 1833, three years after...
...exciting: Bill King had said that life was made up of loving and making money, but it was a good deal more than that. Life was made up of letting the dog out, of hitting your thumb with the hammer when you were driving nails, of getting someone to fix the washer in the laundry faucet, of Christmas and friends to dinner. . . . It always seemed that, when I finished with one particular problem, there would be time to read or time to think-but there was always something else. . . . From the depths of memory a troubled tale emerges...
Anxious to have an F which he had received on a ten minute quiz erased from the mark book, an anonymous Freshman recently complained to his instructor that he had prepared the wrong assignment. When asked if he would "fix it up," the favor-granting master replied that he would to his best. Next morning the paper was returned to its expectant owner. Mark: F-plus: -Yale Dally News...
...well into which he threw it and grew so huge that it would wrap itself many times around a nearby hill. It devastated the countryside and when cut into pieces reunited and slew its attackers. A local witch told Sir John he could kill it if he would fix razor blades to his armor and vow to kill the first living thing he saw after vanquishing the Worm. If he broke the vow, the beldame said, for nine generations no Lambton would...
...sake" is useless. To develop, muscles must be used for a purpose. Spastic children must be sent to school as soon as possible, must not have their lessons done for them, for they learn only by experience. Writing, or typing, is very important, for muscular movements somehow help to fix facts in the spastic's brain...