Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...excessive interference by legislatures in local affairs. - (5) To unsatisfactory charter arrangements. - (6) To corrupt influence of property owners, corporations and rich men: Adams, Public Debts, p. 365. - (c) Businesslike administration and present broad suffrage are not necessarily inconsistent, as shown by - (1) Reformed city governments. - (2) Perfection of certain departments, e. g., Fire and Police Departments. - (3) Foreign experience, e. g., Birmingham: Forum, Vol. 14, p. 267. - (4) The judgment of reformers and practical men. - (d) Undesirable voters can be excluded in more direct and practicable ways. - (1) The ignorant, by an educational qualification. - (2) The corrupt, by more...
Wrenn will undoubtedly be able to play in the Princeton game but it is not certain yet whether Winslow will be able to play...
...admirable marching of these pretty girls really takes one by storm. "She-who-is-to-be-Obeyed" holds her head up like an antelope, and is quite as agile as that beautiful animal. It was observed on the opening night that one of these fair warriors looked like a certain Boston beauty who has achieved some distinction by her capture of foreign celebrities to ornament her "afternoons," but of course it is only a resemblance, though a close one. At any rate it is not safe to disbelieve in "dopple-gangers" when two women could play in a 'Comedy...
...success of Japan is certain to affect our relations in the Pacific vitally. Our chief competitors at sea for a century have been the little islands across the Atlantic and here we have similar competition growing up in three small islands across the Pacific. For the honor of this country, it is to be hoped that we may acquire dominion over the Hawaiian Islands as an offset to the Japanese hold on Corea...
What have we to learn from this war? Have we not the same feeling of security that the Chinese had before the war? Do we not often hear that no country would dare attack us? It is this self sufficiency which is certain to come before disaster-One blessing we have and that is boundless resources for building our defense. May we never be in that helpless condition that will oblige us to buy our ships and munitions of war abroad. In the midst of unexampled commercial prosperity, is not our martial spirit disappearing? Have not a strong tendency...