Word: chain
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...This Museum has been a link in a long chain of manifestations of friendliness between Germany and America. The German Emperor, the King of Saxony, the Prince Regent of Bavaria, German City Governments and a number of American friends of German culture have generously helped its cause...
...knowledge of the laws of nature is an essential part of the mental outfit which no cultivated man should lack. He need not know much, but he ought to know enough to learn more. To him the forces of nature ought not to be an occult mystery, but a chain of causes and effects with which, if not wholly familiar, he can at least claim acquaintance; and the same principle applies to every other leading branch of knowledge...
...indoor sports in the Hemenway Gymnasium and the growing feeling against basketball make it imperative that the outdoor sports be placed as largely as possible at the service of those who play for the fun of it and for the fresh air it puts into their lungs. Through a chain of unfortunate circumstances scrub hockey was either neglected or prevented last year. The opportunities afforded this year by the ice on the river near the boat houses will relieve the congestion which has existed in the Stadium in former years and there is every reason to believe that the response...
...literary craftsmen have not as a rule been wholly satisfactory: the outcome has too often been an encyclopoedic production, abounding in gaps and marred by glaring unevenness in quality. In The American Nation, however, Professor Hart has made it his editorial duty to have the various links of the chain wrought with some approach to uniformity and properly welded end to end. It is of course true that in a series of twenty-seven volumes by authors of widely differing attainments and experience there must of necessity be some variations in intrinsic value; but with one or two possible exceptions...
These islands, among which Professor Jaggar and his associates have spent the summer, from part of a submerged mountain chain from Alaska to Kamchatka, and glacial action has so deepended the valleys that the result is called a sea of mountains. Owing to the prevalence of gales and the danger of the coasts, ships have rarely visited the archipelago. The islands are destitute of trees, but are covered with a thick growth of herbage. The climate is foggy but free from extremes...