Word: actually
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been dissipated by the framus of the laws. The article contains an appendix with valuable statistics on the acquirement and disposition of the territory in the possession of the government. The number contains, in addition, short references to the ultimate redemption of the greenbacks in this country; to the actual weight of the English gold coin compared to its standard weight; and to the government lottery in Italy...
...student will leave the really important things that are at his door unexamined, while he follows out a theory that fletters his vanity and gives unbounded sway to his imagination and to his ingenuity. The safest method therefore is to base our observations and draw our conclusions from the actual historical facts at our disposal...
Saturday, the 6th, was given up to the undergraduates who had boat races and a foot-ball match, that they might show their visitors their prowess. But, unlike English undergraduates, they also invited visitors to see how they were progressing towards the acquirement of the graces needed for actual life. They took possession of the university theatre, and delivered addresses and recited poems of their own with as much gravity and dignity as Mr. Lowell or Mr. Holmes. The traditions of American life sink deep, and the pattern is everywhere the same. Two orators and two poets, chosen by vote...
...that he is unable to lift his hand to his shoulders, but he pluckily keeps on playing as there is no one to put in. Peabody runs around the Yale rush line, knocking off Wallace and Gill, but he is downed before he gets more than ten yards actual gain. Sears gains ten yards, but the next three downs are in the same place and Yale gets the ball. Watkinson gains five yards, and time is called with the ball in Harvard's possession, fifteen yards from our line. Score...
...these more recent days, in the third and fourth quarters of this 19th century, technical theology itself was broken open and mingled itself with life? New sciences have claimed that they, too, have revelations to give us of the will and ways of God. The actual life of men, the problems of the personal soul, the perplexities of social life; these, as well as the abstractions of the intellect, have proved their power to awaken doubt and to inspire faith. You cannot separate theology any longer by sharp lines from psychology and sociology. The open doors of the college chapel...