Word: downe
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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We all know Scrooge's ghost when we see it, and the more we see it the better we like it. Scrooge's ghost is not nearly so empty and formal and cold as an ordinary ghost; on the contrary, it is very amiable and warm and merry, and improves...
The socialist movement is only 35 years old, but it has already a membership of over ten million men and is spreading with incredible speed over the earth. Throughout Europe all the scientists and literary men of the younger school are socialists. Germany forty years ago, was poverty stricken and...
There is one aspect of the situation which is usually overlooked. Supposing the Hall were obliged to shut down: the result would be an immediate rise in the price of board in the other eating places of probably a dollar more per week. Those men who are now paying $5...
"It was, in a word, a very remarkable production of a very unusual play. Its few faults are easily remedied; the prayer at the climax of the second act is not effective. The curtain should fall on Nell's line to her child: 'Pray as you have never prayed before...
"Nor does Harvard alone attest his greatness. His mental precision and unusual capacity for lucid and apt discrimination have enabled him to treat public questions with singular authority and with an unerring instinct for the aspirations and needs of society. He has touched no subject without illuminating it; he has...