Word: actually
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...eleven every man of Yale takes just and exultant pride. Its struggle from impotence against Colgate to excellence against Princeton has never been surpassed by any Yale team. Its playing against perhaps the best football machine that ever represented Harvard brought more honor to Yale than many an actual victory over inferior Harvard teams. Its fight Saturday, though of course "unsatisfactory," was a magnificent embodiment of something implied in the word Yale. In the memory of that fight, engraved upon the minds of even the Harvard spectators, the bitterness of defeat vanishes...
...Cele is well fitted to conduct a trade school to teach the Africans, having taken courses in blacksmithing, wheelwrighting, carpentry, upholstery, shoemaking, painting and agriculture at Hampton Institute. The trouble with many missionaries who have gone to Africa has been that they have had no practical experience in actual work, being only fitted to train the minds of the Africans. By the system which will be employed at the Armstrong Institute, the physical side of the negro will be developed first, leaving the higher mental development to come later...
...Lake City, and is governed entirely by the boys themselves. They have their own bank and other institutions, while the laws are made and carried out by officers chosen from among them. There are, to be sure, teachers to carry on the work of instruction, but aside from the actual discharge of their duties in this regard, they have no control over matters pertaining to the "City...
...plot of "We, the People" is based on an actual episode in the real life of a convict. Every effort has been expended to secure realism, both in action and scenery, one of the settings being a replica of the rotunda in the Charlestown Prison...
...Andrew Carnegie [see letter in Appendix of World-Religion Sacred Scriptures] wrote: "I have purchased this book by the half-dozen several times and sent to friends." Through his unsolicited generosity the price of two volumes has been placed at the actual cost of publishing and delivery-- so that all interested in Cosmopolitan Religion and Ethics may be able to procure them. For the first and second editions of World Religion Sacred Scriptures a large number of very favorable Press and Personal Commendations were received by their publishers, George Putnam's Sons of New York and London...