Word: deed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...wickedness, but of virtue impotent and inactive. Hamlet, although in many ways a splendid character is possessed, in the words of a French critic of note, of "a will which is strongly deemed to have the willing power, but which is powerless to furnish itself with motive for the deed." In speaking of the New Testament, John Ruskin has said what may be well applied to the death of the hero of the play, that the most soul-stirring picture drawn by the Savior is the terrible condemnation of the rejected,--not of the evil doers, but of those...
Columbia has recently received a gift of $100,000 from John D. Rockefeller of New York. The terms of the deed provide for the use of the money in the endowment of the chair of psychology...