Word: air
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Sunday who do not attend church in the city, either from the fear that their clothes are not suitable to wear at church services or from the feeling that they need the entire day for rest. The services were at first held on the wharves in the open air or on the vessels in the harbor. But it was soon thought best by the members of the mission to limit their efforts to the sailors at T wharf and to secure a regular place for their meetings. After a great deal of difficulty and delay they gained the permission...
...general, the plan is as follows: (A) In the long exhibition room will be displayed the specimens which illustrate the relations of plants of air, water, and soil; to heat, light, electricity, chemism, and gravitation. In this room will also come the illustrations of plants to the lower animals, a scheme which would be impossible of accomplishment without the cooperation of the director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Mr. Agassiz has expressed his willingness to transfer to this room all necessary specimens, and this assistance secures success...
...introduced among the Jews; for there is no reference in old Jewish law to an after life. It is, indeed, only by a most severe stretching of the text that you can get a hint of immortality from the psalms of David. But in the New Testament the whole air is full of immortality, although the Sadducees and agnostics pretended not to believe in it. All this change and much more was brought about during those four lost centuries. Alexander the Great overthrew the vast Persian Empire and, as a great poet has said, "his chariot wheels smoothed...
Professor Carpenter spoke first of the theory of Pythagoras, who believed that souls existed separately in the air, and that bodily life was a fall from a diviner height; that after the soul had been purified in hades it returned again to its former divine life. Plato, he said, taught in his philosophy that true life was a continual ascent, and that beyond the grave there was a world where purity and truth were not hampered by human incompleteness. In spite of metaphysical difficulties Plato found clear answers for ethics and religion...
...upon which Mr. Watson expects to develop his stroke. Particular attention was paid to watermanship and to a long, sweeping stroke, obtained in great part by a long body swing. The necessity of dropping the oars into the water at full reach instead of rowing them in through the air with the body was emphasized...