Word: almost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Certain phases of English life in London and elsewhere, he set forward in a most vivid and entertaining manner. One almost felt that he was among the people himself, and was himself noting down their peculiarities of character, manner and custom. He spoke about the trial of Mrs. Besant; of various London Clubs which he visited; of an Oxford commemoration exercise he attended, and of different people he met, always noting the peculiar national traits, which are foreign to our American ideas...
...each, the winners and second men to start in the second round. The starters in the final heat were: B. Hurd, B. A. A., F. W. Lord, B. A. A., O. W. Shead, '93; and K. Brown, '93. The race was very exciting, the men clearing the hurdles almost at the same time. Shead ran an excellent race but was unable to catch Hurd who had a start of 2 feet winning by a little less than that distance. O. W. Shead, '93, second; and K. Brown, '93. Time...
Holmes Field presented an unusual sight yesterday afternoon. Almost the whole Field is covered with ice and on the northern half is a smooth space large enough for several games of polo besides leaving room for a good many other skaters. On the running track the ice is smooth and hard all the way around except near the willows...
Dryden's lack of principle, or possibly his indolent disposition led him always to submit to the ruling powers. He was Puritan in his youth, royalist in his manhood, papist in his old age. Yet after all the man was so easily influenced that it was almost impossible for him not to follow the lead of the majority. Whatever may have been his character as a man, certainly as a poet he gave with every advancing year added proof of strength, maturity and nobility. His genius was rather receptive than creative; the seeds that were planted in his mind bore...
...great trouble with a man's perfecting himself is the fact of self-consciousness. The man who aims directly at making himself perfect gets in his own way. Right here the law of indirectness begins to act. Almost all the truth comes to us indirectly. Eloquence of the highest sort expresses itself in figures of speech and poetry, especially, naturally clothes itself in metaphor. So it is with the man who seeks perfection. His seeking must be along an indirect line or it becomes mere selfishness...