Word: endless
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...chief objections to the rowing tanks in the Gymnasium is that the water cannot be made to circulate rapidly enough to imitate the motion of a shell. A plan which will probably be adopted is an endless chain of paddles to quicken the circulation of the water, to revolve in the inner trough on each side of the boat by steam power. If this plan proves practicable it will greatly lessen the drudgery of practice...
...other permanent remedy, the retirement of the legal tender notes, is the best. But the strong argument for this plan is not the one ordinarily given, the "endless chain" argument, the depletion of the gold reserve. For this could be remedied by the former plan of keeping down the volume of currency. The real argument for the complete retirement of the legal tender notes is the danger of over-issue. This is the familiar argument against the issue of inconvertible paper money...
Jesus's nature was such that he had either to make an organized crusade against wrong, or an organized sacrifice. It was the only possible expression of his life that he should urge endless war against the forces of evil. Civilization was a vast Roman empire, making one great slave-power of the earth. Suicide was the only escape for fettered and despairing humanity. If a man dared to act there was Rome to punish him. Had Jesus been a fanatic, he might have gathered followers and overthrown the political and religious despotism, for with fanatics all things are possible...
...withdraw the incentive to this physical work would be most unfortunate, for it is a fact that the average man will seldom take the trouble to do a thing that is beneficial to his health for that reason alone. In the next two months we are sure to hear endless schemes and proposals for reforming the game most, of which will be utterly worthless. We believe that if the men who intend offering advice will stop to think a moment of what they feel were the worst features of the game last Saturday, and will then consider what the effect...
...popular idea of orders. Many persons think that different styles are different orders, while in reality the orders are only various expressions of the same style. There are only three distinct orders,- the Doric, the Ionic, and the Corinthian. All others are variations of these. The variations are endless in number and admit of as great changes as any one can desire. The restrictions are not in any sense bonds, but have really done more to bring about variety of design than to limit...