Word: blood
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...This is especially true of the great poets, the glow of whose genius fuses the word and the idea into a rich Corinthian metal which no imitation can replace. One feels this instantly with any translation of Shakespeare even into German, the language which has the nearest affinities of blood with our own. A translation can enable us to form a just enough estimate of an author's general power of mind, of a poet's constructive ability, but the very best of them cannot render for us that which is the characteristic of all great and individual writing, namely...
...Francis was born in the town of Assisi, in Umbria, in the year 1182, in that dark period called the "century of mud and blood." It was the time of Frederic Barbarossa and the second Crusade, when discord was rife between church and state, democracy and oligarchy. St. Francis believed in carrying the maxims of the gospel into the public as well as the private life of the people, and his life was a constant example of what he thought...
...college athletics. The so-called sparring matches held in years past at Cambridge have as a rule been mere exhibitions of unscientific, brutal "slugging," degrading to the participants and spectators and disgraceful to the association under whose auspices they have been held. Contents into which athletes enter "for blood" and not infrequently come out wearing the laurels of a "knock out," are unworthy of recognition as legitimate sports, and deserve the condemnation of friends of college athletics...
...Stanton 145, H. W. Howe 145, E. G. Barnard 140, H. S. Roberts 140, W. Byrnes 140, R. M. Begein 148, H. T. Lee 140, R. Ranlett 135, E. Alden 120, R. L. Robbins 135, G. S. Prouty 135, L. O. Obrien 130, R. C. Skinner 132, C. Blood 132, H. W. Wellington 138, A. Silberman 135, M. C. Fenollosa 134, J. D. Phillips 126, J. T. Hewes 139, F. A. Burlingam 135, H. Binney 131. V. M. Hilliard 132, R. Paine 135, T. M. Weld, G. Calkins 135, H. Cram 135, H. G. Gray 127, H. H. Brown...
...Blood, C R, 2 Brewers