Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Major von Tellhelm, a once prosperous officer in the army of Frederic the Great, has been discharged and reduced to poverty through the refusal of the military authorities to refund without investigation the advances made by him while in service. As a last means of securing money he is obliged...
Until recently the only account of the original Phoenician alphabet -- from which it is agreed the Western alphabets descend through their undoubted ancestor, the Greek,--said that it was derived from an Egyptian Hieratic system of writing. In this theory there is a break of more than a thousand years...
The first public performance of the French plays, "Crispin Medecin," and "Un Jeune Homme Presse," was given in Bratt'e Hall last night. In spite of the fact that three changes in the castes of the plays were made necessary at short notice, the performance as a whole was very...
"Simon Peter:" -- About these two words are twined the suggestive memories of a wonderful life, a life full of stress and storm and change but firm and victorious in the end. There comes before one the picture of Simon, the Galilean fisherman, fickle and untrue, known among the sailors of...
It is a significant fact that Peter called himself in his letter by both names. He realized the weakness of character that the old name "Simon" connoted, and yet he was not ashamed to use it. There was no sting in the old memories, no rankling of the old faults...