Word: displays
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Although the Botanical Garden at this time of the year cannot offer that attractive display of plants and flowers which it has in the spring or summer, yet the garden itself is, at any time, far from being an uninteresting place to visit. Out of doors the preparation of the various plants for winter and the setting-out of bulbs for next year's bloom is now progressing. Within the conservatories where the winter plants are just beginning to bloom, and where one may, as far as plants are concerned, pass through all the zones in a few moments...
After marching two hours, the procession reached Jarvis Field where there followed a grand display of fireworks...
...will be beneficial, because its heavy penalties for violation are certain to be enforced.- (a) It renders enforcement easy.- (1) By enabling individual complainants to challenge certificates and carry their cases to court.- (2) By providing for the constant and prominent display of the tax certificate.- (3) By throwing saloon interiors plainly open to inspection during hours when sale is forbidden.- (b) It renders non-enforcement most dangerous.- (1) Remissness officially is severely punishable.- (c) It removes motives for nonenforcement.- (1) State-appointed officials cannot be bribed or intimidated by local liquor interests.- (d) It was rigidly enforced last Sunday...
...plan during the coming Christmas vacation, but Easter week would, I think, be a very fitting time for it. This project could be carried out with very little trouble, as, by chance, almost every one of the principals hails from New York, and would be only too willing to display his dramatic talent to his friends; the ballet and final ceremony ought to be filled out with New York fellows, who know how to dance and who will do their share in disposing of tickets to their many friends, thus assuring large audiences. The consent of the Faculty for such...
...early as 600 B. C. there was great funeral display, which Solon and other later rulers tried in vain to check. The earliest form of monument was a simple tablet, which later is found elaborately carved. They usually contain the names of the person to whom the monument is erected, his father, and those who set up the tablet. As the stones become more elaborate we find figures carved in relief. Some of these suggest, though roughly, figures in the frieze of the Parthenon. In the Attic monuments we find the hoplite, the sailor perched on the prow...