Word: blowing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ever be destroyed or lost, is it natural to suppose that in the spiritual world a spirit that has been developing for many years, that is the result of immeasurable labor and the effect of many influences can all be destroyed and blotted out of existence by the blow of a dagger? Is it not rather natural that what is so infinitely more valuable in the sight of God than the energy of the sun should be preserved...
...painters, at the head of whom stand Titian, Gorgona, Tintoretto, and Verrezana. The doings of these four are of the greatest importance in the history of art, not only because of what they built up but because of what they pulled down. It was they who dealt the death blow to religion as the object of art. This does not mean that religious subjects were discarded by them, but that they sought art truth rather than religious truth. For them a Venus was as good as a Madonna. They were interested in art for art's sake...
Three tests are made: first, the time required for a response to a bell signal; second, the quickness and speed of a blow struck in response to a singal; and third, the time and accuracy of attempts made to touch a dot suddenly shown in an unexpected position...
Time. Bell. Quickness of blow. (Starting time. Speed...
...Newton, Massachusetts. He fitted for college at the Newton High School and at Mr. Cutler's private school, and entered Harvard with the class of ninety-five. While he has been in college, Linder has made many friends, to whom his death comes as a sudden and painful blow. His cheerful disposition and manly bearing attracted to him many who did not know him intimately and to these as well as to his closer friends, his death is a sad loss. In temperament he was so quiet and unassuming that it is not until he has been taken away that...