Word: attack
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Attack on the Observatory in Peru.Rumors have been circulated to the effect that the Harvard Observatory in Peru has been attacked and that injury has been done to the valuable instruments. Professor Pickering entertains strong hopes that these rumors are ill-founded, and that they will prove to have been started by the raid on the station situated at El Misti...
This is the second and last week of "On the Mississippi," at the Columbia. The play is most exciting from start to finish. The Mardi Gras Carnival at New Orleans, the attempted lynching, the affray in the gambling house, the attack on the jail, the floating theatre on the Mississippi, the inimitable songs and dances of the darkies, are always welcomed by large audiences...
...clock yesterday morning. He was first taken seriously ill a week ago last Friday and has been gradually sinking ever since. Hope was not abandoned by his physician or his family until last night when it was discovered that his original ailment had been complicated by an attack of pneumonia...
...could give us the precipitate of assured wisdom which would deposit itself from the combination of all. Perhaps a certain amount of such inconsistency is inevitable in a mind like his. He is the Demosthenes of criticism, who always has a client to defend or a criminal to attack, and he is perfectly right in saying that he is never illogical, if by that he means that his individual syllogisms are never false in form. Moreover, a man who sets out to discover a theory that shall reconcile all phenomena is very apt unconsciously to construct one and to make...
...political question. From 1634 to 1884 a sermon was preached every year before the General Court of Massachusetts, and usually this sermon was printed and widely scattered over the state. In 1884 the law providing for this annual sermon was repealed chiefly on account of the virulence of an attack made in a sermon by Rev. Alexander Minot on the opinions held by the party in power. It was a great pity that this practice should have been discontinued, for by it such men as John Eliot, President Hopkins of Williams, Rev. Henry Ware, and Dr. Andrew Peabody have reached...