Word: brought
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Higginson '55, and others, regarding the construction of the proposed Charles River Dam. Definite action on the bill will be taken by the House probably today. It will then be referred to the Committee on Rules of the Senate, and if the committee reports favorably, will be brought before that body for final action...
Hawthorne's visit to the Berkshires in 1838 marked the turning point of his career. Contact with the rough, hearty mountaineers and frontiersmen brought to him for almost the first time a realization of other men and other lives, and with this experience the self centred traits of his nature began to disappear. From this time must be dated the real beginning of his literary career. The old sensitiveness to emotion and idealism, the delicate fancy and imagination still remained, and to these he has added something of the sympathy with mankind and human nature by which alone he might...
Thackeray was brought to England from India in 1816, and at the age of eleven he entered the Charterhouse School. There his life, though passed in the partial seclusion from his fellows which his gentle, timid nature chose, was not distinctive or unusual Later he entered Cambridge, then studied law for a time, studied drawing in Paris, and at length returned to London and began writing for papers and magazines...
...Constitution came before Marshall during his long term as Chief Justice, and to the wisdom of his decisions is due in great measure that prevalence of sound constitutional doctrine and opinion that has made the permanence of the Union possible. To this and all his work John Marshall brought "a great stateman's sagacity, a great lawyer's lucid exposition and persuasive reasoning, a great man's candor and breadth of view, and that judicial authority on the bench, allowed naturally and as of right, to a large sweet nature which all men loved and trusted...
...score of 1 to 0. Although the scores were close, the games in both cases were slow, chiefly owing to the fact that they were played on the open ice and not on a rink as usual. This caused a great waste of time while the puck was being brought back to a playable position, and, while it allowed some brilliant individual work on the sides, it was a great hindrance to team play and a handicap to men who had been accustomed to using the sides of the rink...