Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...again; and the third 12, 20, or 24 times over, for the various reports are not clear as to which it was. Taking the longest distance, this would only be 14.562 English feet, or just over two and three-quarter miles; and yet when the Spartan Ladas dropped down dead on completing this course, apparently it was not considered a matter of great surprise, for it was evidently thought a wonderful performance for an athlete to be able to run so far. Now our runners would make light of such a distance and races for twenty miles or more continually...
...dead lock was caused in the meeting of the Intercollegiate base-ball league last Friday, by each representative voting for himself for president. Some three hours were spent in this...
...know God. Nature shows God, but some men do not see any divine agency, because God is not in them. They have schooled themselves not to see, and so they will remain, forever, in the dark. When the voice of duty is no longer heard, then the soul is dead, although the understanding may remain. The sin of to-day is the insensibility to spiritual life. Men are asking whether life is worth living, but the souls of such men are dead. "What profits it a man if he gain the whole world, but lose his own soul...
Prof. Jordan, the eminent Berlin authority on Roman topography, is dead...
...spring of '68 then opened, with all ambition apparently dead in base-ball circles, though the nine voted to challenge the Lowell and Yale to match games. It also proposed to take a summer tour, the expenses to be lightened by the Pudding and other theatricals which had for the first time offered their services in this direction...