Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...shape of a half football. The engraving is especially noteworthy. Around the top of the cup is a wreath of laurel leaves twined together in an artistic manner. Beneath this is a plain band, on which are the words in large raised letters, "Boston School FootBall Challenge Cup." The central wreath is made of morning glories: twenty-four leaves, and a number of well-drawn flowers. On each of these leaves will be engraved from year to year the name of the school, together with the names of the men who compose the team which wins the championship for that...
...true Americans. The almost universally accepted modifications of the doctrine of the Declaration of Independence that "all men are created equal" are fully upheld in the assertion that our country is not to be thought of as merely an asylum for the pporessed. The duty of selfpreservation is the central idea of the article...
...Government should interfere. (a) The central power should interfere rather than a state power. (b) The laws are U. S. laws and the U. S. should enforce them. (c) The elections are U. S. elections and the U. S. does and should have jurisdiction over them. (d) The U. S. is the only power which can interfere satisfactorily...
With the citizens of Mecca the case was different. The city had grown rich by trade, being situated on the caravan route to the highly civilized states of southern Arabia. At Mecca was situated the Caaba, the central temple of the Arabs. The pilgrims wished to find their tribal gods in the temple, and thus a polytheism became the religion of the city, although many of the citizens, who had studied the sacred books of the Jews, were inclinto monotheism. Any attack on the idols endangered the commercial prosperity of the city, as the pilgrims afforded the chief source...
...private classical school for boys with best antecedents is for sale in a Central State...