Word: ever
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Cooperative Society is now in a more prosperous condition than ever before. The membership is much larger and the business has doubled since Mr. Lyford took charge, five years ago. The society now contains 1904 members, while at this time last year there were 1668 and the total for the whole year was 1679. This year there has been about $14,000 more business than in the same period of time last year...
...belt. The gorgeous highly-colored orchids of the tropics are comparatively rare, and the most brilliant are in secluded nooks or cling as epiphytes to the higher branches of the loftiest trees, well out of sight. And lastly, there is nothing in the tropics which can compare with the ever fresh surprise of the miracle of spring, even as it is seen in our austere and whimsical New England. Our plants, growing under such severe conditions, are well worth studying just as examples of organisms which have endured the hardest of all times...
...control of the university authorities. It will so remain. The university has encouraged athletic sports; it will continue to encourage them. We believe that this is an important part of college and university life. We shall see to it, however, that no man upon a university team shall ever have a second opportunity to disgrace either himself or the university. At home and with the teams of other institutions we shall endeavor to cultivate a spirit that shall be, in the truest sense, elevating...
...lecturer regretted that the limited time at his disposal prevented him from speaking of all the players that he had intended to speak of, but that he would take up the three greatest performers he had ever seen - the elder Salvini, Madame Janauschek and Eleanora Duse...
...welfare of his fellowmen. He believed that truth must be spoken at all hazards, and this work was written at the risk of offending the most powerful persons in Florence. Whether as poet or philosopher or prophet, Dante's one strong purpose always remained unchanged. No servant of men ever gave himself to their service with more devotion, or ever served them with more integrity than he did. It is the marvel in Dante's poetry that, intentionally writing for a moral purpose, his work never lost in beauty or art on that account...