Word: containing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...should be devoted to book reviews, prepared so far as possible by experts, and either unsigned or signed as the writers may prefer. There should be space for notes and news about historical books and writers. There should also be a department for the publication of inedited documents which contain historical material of value...
...millionaire should be obliged to support the government to a larger degree than the laborer, we do not support a socialistic theory. The most civilized countries of the world have adopted the income tax and unite in declaring it the most important feature of their revenue system. All bills contain some evils, but all bills do not rest upon such a firm basis as ours. This limit of $4,000 is a natural one between the over-taxed middle classes and the under-taxed rich classes. This tax has solved the problem of two wars for England, has relieved Germany...
...cooperation with the New England Weather Service, observations are made at nearly two hundred stations distributed over New England, and the results are published in the Annals, which also contain the results of investigations by members of the New England Meteorological Society...
...above the life of Aristophanes. Born in 444 B. C., he wrote his first play at the age of seventeen. He continued to write for forty years. Of his comedies eleven are extant besides fragments of thirty-three others. His plays are purely fanciful, as their names suggest. They contain lampoons upon the public men of the day which are sometimes bitter and always witty...
There never was a more perfect master of rhythm than Aristophanes. His verses are tetrameters in three-eighths time. His lyrics, which contain a distinctly operatic quality, are very fine. The music and dance which accompanied the latter are lost...