Word: actually
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...poems which have come down to us from the early races we see that there is a strange confusion between the ideas held as to the future state and the actual usages contemporary with them. This is explained by the fact that men in all time have clung to usages long after the ideas on which they are based have passed away...
...Captain Waters joined the squad yesterday for the first time. He did not do any actual playing, but coached the second eleven vigorously. He has begun exercising and will play in the line...
...income tax is a just tax. - (a) It is an assessment on a man's ability to pay. - (b) It falls upon those who are best able to pay. - (1) Incomes more than necessary for actual living expenses. - (c) It equalizes the burden of taxation. - (1) The poor have to bear most of the taxes on consumption: Lalor's Cyclopaedia...
...been increasing at such a rate that the department is now fast outgrowing Boylston Hall. Some of the present classes are cramped for want of laboratory room. Here is an opportunity for some friend of the University and of the Chemistry department in particular to provide for an actual need...
...admitting the old Doctor's apothegm that Art is long; we gradually become persuaded that it is like the Irishman's rope, the other end of which was cut off. So different is Art, whose concern is with the ideal and potential, from Science, which is limited by the actual and positive...