Word: deadening
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...does compulsion have upon the several classes of persons to whom it is applied? Does it not work more harm than good? So far as members of the church are concerned the effect of compulsion may be disregarded, although it is said that even among these it tends to deaden rather than to stimulate and enliven an interest in religion. But there is good ground for a belief that compulsion tends to repel students who are not Christians and to harden their hearts...
...Jefferson" physical laboratory on Holmes field is to be surrounded with a trench filled with stones to deaden street jars and secure accuracy in experiments. Over the building will rise a double-walled tower intended for experiments with long pendulums and for investigations of the atmosphere...