Word: graining
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...American stump-speaker, we have touched the other extreme, and have laid ourselves open to a kind of censure which such articles as that on "The Repressive Influence of Harvard" may be supposed to represent. When one of our own professors publicly acknowledges that there is more than a grain of truth in the remark of an outsider to the effect that a Harvard graduate, however much he may know, can say but a few sentences on any subject, while a Yale man can talk fluently about anything that he does or does n't know...
...ought to have an abundance of dime novelists: but why parties should deliberately continue to advertise in organs of colleges most opposed to any "mixing," such articles as "Wilson's Sewing-Machine," "Bonnets and Cloaks," and the like, we do not see. Nor is it plain why Grain, Flour, and Feed Stores, Meat Depots, Savings Banks, and Life Insurance Companies should find it for their interest to do this thing. We nowhere find advertisements of the Philosopher's Stone, or of the Circular Square; but we do read of "wholesome pie," which falls into the same category. Attorneys...