Word: dryness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...character, and it moreover gives the Mohammedan story of the battles of the crusades. Such authorities have been cited as the ancient historians Bohadin, Ernoul, and Ambrose, who were actually in Palestine when the events which they described took place. The book is almost entirely free from the dryness of technical and historical detail, and bears more the nature of an entertaining narrative. Numerous maps and illustrations serve to bring the places and persons of the time still more clearly before the reader...
...States" is a companion paper to "The Marriage Celebration in the Colonies" of the March number. The article which is of most interest to students is the "First Crisis of the American Revolution," by John Fiske. The narrative is simple and intensely interesting, and the writer successfully avoids the dryness which is so common to historical sketches...
...interesting as a compend to those familiar with the facts, it would also be entertaining and instructive to that large class, in all communities, who are without the means of obtaining such information." The book supplies the place of a guide book, at the same time avoiding its dryness of detail. The typographical work has been done by the University Press, a sufficient guarantee of its excellence...
...matter of drinks, water is the best, because the physical system consists largely of water. It should be taken in proportion to physical action undergone. Coffee and tea are not detrimental, and do not produce the unpleasant reactive results of alcohol. Tea produces perspiration, while coffee produces a dryness of the skin and excites the action of the heart. In case of any resultant nervous affection, they should be left...