Word: bend
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...were illustrated by their members - and whether the faculty marched themselves or were personified by the students, I really have forgotten. We have here in Harvard the men, plenty of music, and from last year, the experience for a big procession. Each society and organization would bend its energies to its own particular section and the whole would with a little guidance, take care of itself. A peculiarly Harvard procession, as such a one would be, would create a widespread interest, and would certainly furnish X. Y. Z. "something he could look back upon with pride and pleasure...
...practical economists come in contact with the organized laboring classes and teach them the fundamental principles of the science. The revolutionary socialist cannot help us. There is still time for our efforts to be preventative. The deepest wrongs will be remedied only as we assent to the evils and bend all our efforts to remove them...
...cause our hearts to throb with that bashful modesty which for so many years has been a conspicuous feature of the character of every Harvard man. In fact to put it squarely we have been disgracefully whipped in foot ball, the chief fall sport, and even in tennis we bend the knee to our victorious rival, Yale. If as we sincerely hope, defeats are the best incentives to victories, our teams must have received enough incentive during the last few months to make them well nigh invincible for many years to come. For the present let us live...
...presents a perfectly smooth surface to the water, unbroken by seam or joint. Nor does it warp or shrink in the sun as much as the wooden one. The paper canoe is also more durable, will last longer and stand harder knocks, because a shock which will only bend or at most cut a hole in it, will completely shatter a wooden...
...taking these cities was so great is not due to any superiority of force or ability displayed by the Confederates, but because Nature stood in the way. The possession of Vicksburg was of the greatest importance to both sides. Situated on a series of high bluffs at a sharp bend in the Mississippi River, it perfectly commanded that great avenue of supply. No transport could pass, and only ironclads running by at night could escape destruction at the hands of the frowning batteries crowning the hills for several miles along the river. Grant, with a powerful army, lay two hundred...