Word: courted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...questions to be presented by the Executive committee to the Harvard Union tonight are: 1 Resolved, That the internal revenue tax on tobacco, and spirits used in the arts should be removed; 2, That the duties of the Supreme court should be lessened by the establishment of intermediate courts; 3, That a national divorce law should be enacted by congress...
...themes for many of his most famous lyrics. In 1775 he left for a short visit to a small principality where he became so intimate with the duke that their intimacy became the general topic of conversation. For ten years Goethe, as prime minister, fulfilled the duties of court, engaged in private theatricals and devoted himself to literature, composing some parts of "Faust" and other noted works. On September 17, 1786, Goethe started for Italy where he spent two years in acquainting himself with Rome, the home of the Caesars. Returning from Italy, Goethe devoted himself to the natural sciences...
Justices of the U. S. Supreme court, except Justice Miller, are regular college graduates. President Harrison and secretary of Interior Noble are alumni of Miami university, which has given then both the degree...
...court epics are of a different nature, being similar to the short English verse of seven or eight feet. Of this class the principal writers are Hartmann, Gottfried von Strasbourg and Wolfram Eschenbach. Hartmann, the author of "Erick," a poem of several thousand lines, was a writer of great poetic genius, as was Got fried, who, although unable to read or write, has left a poem of 1900 lines. But after the death of these three men there was a great decline in literature...
...that each candidate shall file a sworn statement of all money he receives for election expenses, and of all money he spends and others spend for him. The advantage of this is that candidates will enter the struggle on equal terms. Furthermore election contests are to be decided in court and not by legislatures; in court a man can get the best possible hearing, and is bound to have his case decided on its own merits, a thing legislatures do not always do. The penalty for bribery is increased to a great extent so that a candidate returned unfairly...