Word: dumbness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...battery candidates. The two squads into which the candidates have heretofore been divided, have been made into one. This squad from now on, will practice every day. Yesterday the work of the men consisted in fielding grounders and sliding bases, followed by a short run and drill with dumb-bells...
...present time is so large that in order to give each man a fair trial it has been divided into two sections which practice on alternate days. So far the work in the cage consists of fielding grounders, sliding and base-running, followed by a short run and dumb bell exercise in the Gymnasium. As soon as the squd is reduced to a convenient size, the men will have a little practice in batting...
...class exercises will consist of free movements, running, dumb-bell and wand exercises, and ball games, in which a large number can participate...
...course, crises when the nation is engaged in a struggle from which it can not retreat, and then the paramount duty to save the country properly silences private doubts. But it does not follow that whenever the government proposes any position on foreign affairs all criticism shall be dumb, and the nation shall follow docilely into any extreme, even into a war which the people may abhor. What is popular government, if the people have surrendered their right to consider every step of a policy which is officially announced as destined to lead, in one not improbable alternative...
...character of these fables involves the attribution of mind and speech to dumb animals. In India, the earliest home of these fables, this was easy on account of the belief in the transmigration of souls...