Word: ever
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Ever since the earlier history of the Hebrews, said Dr. Abbott, there has always been a belief in the world that a Golden Age would someday manifest itself. The people were reluctant to accept Christ's simple doctrine, mainly because they did not want to. The following years, however, saw the Kingdom of God placed by the impatient people first in the Roman Empire, then in the Church, and even in the monasteries. But corruption and selfishness arose even within the cloistered walls...
There has been unmistakable forces in this country which have brought about this change of opinion. The ever-present question is: How shall these seventy millions of people soon to become a hundred millions, live together in peace, in happiness and in honor? In other words, how can we bring the Kingdom of God to hand in these United States...
...second volume is "The Lodging House Question in Boston," by A. B. Wolfe '02. This work is the result of two years of special investigation during the time that Mr. Wolfe held the South End Fellowship. It presents the most complete description ever published of a typical lodging-house district in the city which has a larger percentage of lodging-house population than any other city in the world...
Across the water in the English universities, two thousand men in each of them go to their sports every afternoon as regularly as they go to their lectures every morning. These sports are and have been ever since the men were boys at school a part of their curriculum, and not once a week or once a month, but once a day from October to June. At two o'clock you see them pouring out at their college gates, and at four or there-abouts you see them hurrying back. Three hundred or so of them row; three hundred more...
...that some one would devise some system by which Harvard "rooters"--excuse the word--could do something besides rooting! An Oxford man is never a rooter and nothing but a rooter. The rooter is as unknown there as the dodo. Nor does he ever hurry his breakfast to crowd around a horse-car and give a varsity team a send-off. Such send-offs would be as common as frogs in a millpond. Soldiers Field, even in the season, is as dead as a desert except within or near the Stadium; but University Park and the various private college fields...