Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...eastern part of London. The enterprise at first seemed to him desperate, the hope of making any head against such a sea of misery and vice was forlorn. With dauntless courage he resolved to make the salvation of his suffering fellow creatures his life work, and here in this dark district of London, where the light of God had never penetrated, be found his field of labor...
...desperate state certain districts of London were, he could induce many to take hold and aid him in the work of salvation. He prefaced his scheme with a diagram, pronounced hideous by the lovers of high art, but by it he hoped to lead people to see the dark sea of misery and crime, which was so near them. We give a man the name of drunkard or tramp, said the general, and then turn away in disgust and think we have done with him. Yet the tramp is still a man; he can feel cold and the gnawing pangs...
...corresponding cultus of the dead. On the other hand was the conception of the dead as "the weak," or "languid." The idea of the tomb in which the members of a family were buried, grew to the larger idea of sheol or the underworld, a place of dark, gloomy depths. Several passages in the Bible indicate the belief that earthly distinctions were carried into the other world...
...freshman games, postponed from Monday, was finished yesterday afternoon. W. W. Hoyt won with a height of 9 ft. 8 in., and A. B. Emmons was second with 9 ft. 5 1-2 in. Hoyt later tried for 10 ft. 6 in., but as it was getting cold and dark, he gave it up after two or three attempts...
...athletics are worth doing at all, they are worth doing well. To be done well, they must be supported,- supported, so long as honorably and wisely conducted, by the whole University and supported whether prospects are bright or dark...