Word: equilibriums
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...Fitzpatrick turned his attention partly to disproving the statement of the affirmative, that colonies are essential to the welfare of France. Though it is true that France needs additional strength to establish the equilibrium of power in Europe, this can be secured better by a purely defensive alliance than by such a one as is proposed by the affirmative, or by additional colonies...
...unhealthy nature and of the suffering of his childhood and youth. He has the imagination of the heart; he penetrates the soul. For this reason he has a sympathetic appreciation of the Middle Ages and is the best historian of Jeanne d'Arc. But after 1843 Michelet lost the equilibrium he had preserved between imagination and erudition; and history came to mean for him mere pamphlet writing...
...attack on good government. (1) The spoils system has always menat, and means now, corrupt administration of public affairs. C. The plank in regard to Federal Relations is an attack upon the U. S. Gov't and subversive of the Constitution. (Chicago Platform.) (1) It destroys the Federal equilibrium established by the Constitution. (a) It means that the U. S. Gov't can exist in efficiency only by the consent of the States. (Att'y-Gen, Harman to Chairman Bynum, Aug. 1896.) (2) It takes from the Federal Gov't. the essential qualities of a government. (a) It declares that...
...influences that build up and buttress the personal character. Goethe taught the self-culture that results in self-possession, in breadth and impartiality of view, and in equipoise of mind. Wordsworth inculcated that self-development through intercourse with man and nature which leads to self-sufficingness, self-sustainment and equilibrium of character. It was the individual that should and could be leavened, and through the individual the lump. To reverse the process was to break the continuity of history and to wrestle with the angel of destiny...
...with the wrists; the hands are shot away at once in the same plane with the arms, and with the assistance of the powerful muscles of the shoulder, while the arms quickly resume their proper place. The ease and rapidity of these actions increase the speed and control the equilibrium. The muscles are exerted equally, and the erect trunk permits the lungs to be filled with deep draughts...