Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Eighteen years ago the Corporation, fully realizing the importance of the Library to the development of advanced instruction at Cambridge in all subjects, spent $90,000 out of their very limited unrestricted capital in enlarging the original Gore Hall. The unrestricted funds have never recovered from that abrupt reduction, - on the contrary, they have been still further diminished by occasional annual deficits in excess of annual surplusses. It is impossible for the Corporation to repeat that operation. The whole income of the University from invested funds and from tuition-fees is needed to maintain the present scale of expenditure...
...direction of that highly desirable equality which shall prove consistent with social life and satisfactory accommodations. The change to this condition, while it can be readily made from the plan of the directors, would be, if not impossible, at least very difficult, where it involved an abrupt reduction in the membership of the association...
...first temple would be a motive in his urging the building of a second. The prophecy was addressed to about two hundred thousand Jews, who, having returned from Babylon some years before, had become either indifferent to rebuilding the temple or discouraged. The style of the prophecy is abrupt, iterative and concise. The first chapter is addressed to the indifferent, the second Chap., verses one to nine, to the diccouraged, ten to nineteen to summary of these prophecies, and verses twenty to twenty-three, to Zerubbabel, the governor...
...scene of the tale is faid in New England, the names of the characters, the incidents and peculiarities of treatment are entirely German, and bring to the mind's eye the "Black Forest" of Germany and the folk-tales which are its inheritance. Though the ending is almost too abrupt, the story on the whole is distinguished by a charming simplicity of style...