Word: downwards
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...find few prominent characters; for the vast majority of men the law of life is oblivion. We belong to the unknown, the unrecorded masses and one epitaph would do for all. This is one great law of man. A second is that the human race, left alone, tends downward. An old proverb says, "The majority are evil." Indeed it is a sad spectacle - the world tending to degradation. The history of the world is a record of degradations and deliverances. The world has fallen and there have come great heroes, agents of the Creator, to raise it again. The hope...
...believed to have accrued to her by another of her works. Wilkie Collins received L5000 for "Armadale," the agreement being signed before a line of the book was written, and he gained the same amount by "No Name." Lord Beaconsfield profited little by his earlier books, but from "Coningsby" downward the gains were considerable, and he must have cleared at least L30,000 by his writings. It is probable that "Endymion" will be remembered as the latest novel for which many thousands have been paid down, as the new practice of issuing cheap editions after the first flush, in order...
...ball then naturally inclines that way ; the more rapid the revolution, of course, the greater the curve. To direct the ball the other way the axis would have to be kept upright and the revolution reversed which could be done by holding the palm of the hand downward...
...success of such buildings as Little's Block, Hilton and Beck shows that dormitories are in demand. The writer then goes on to compare the rents of rooms at Harvard with that at English universities. "The rent of rooms in the college dormitories ranges from $300 downward. At Oxford, the most expensive university in Europe, room rent is not nearly so high; the highest priced rooms in Christ Church College, the costliest of all, being but pound18 18s., about $95; at Balliol the total average cost of furnished rooms is about pound20-$100; at Magdalene the highest priced rooms...
...Acta is "pained to note the downward career of the gentleman who obtained considerable prominence of late, owing to the relations between his thumb and the Harvard Boat Club. Whatever our feelings may be toward the gentleman in regard to his action in the late controversy, we cannot help dropping a tear of sadness when we think of his having sunken so low as to be nominated for the legislature of Massachusetts. Such depravity is simply awful...