Word: exception
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...when older they devour insects, which are caught by means of their long tongues covered by a sticky fluid. There are also the spring frogs, leopard frogs, and marsh frogs, all much alike, but characterized by difficult markings. The wood frog lives on land, and is difficult to catch except when it goes to the water to lay its eggs...
...Yaln. The attack by the Japanese was well planned. The evolution consisted simply in steaming in large circles, or spirals, and picking out two ships at a time, until the enemy's fleet was reduced to two ships, which escaped. This engagement does not teach much of a lesson, except to be ready when the time comes to fight. The Japanese were too feebly opposed to tell anything about the relative merits of different classes of ships. The effect of this battle, like that at Ping Yan, was very decisive, opening the way to an advance upon the Gulf...
BOSTON, April 25. - Local forecast for New England, Friday: Fair, except for possible local showers; cooler; westerly to northerly winds...
...exceeding five or six notes; then it stands to reason that all the music to be sung must necessarily be in the very simplest and most perspicuous rhythms, or the singers cannot learn it. This is really the most serious handicap of all: to forego all rhythms except those of the march, the galop or the waltz. And still the young composer has written a great deal of really charming music in "Proserpina," showing no little melodic inventiveness and even succeeding in giving some numbers a characteristic coloring by means as simple as they are effective, and made the best...
...history. If the disciples were false, how could they have invented a story so wonderful and at the same time so consistent? If the Gospel is true, it must be regarded as integral, and the resurrection as a necessary part of it. The facts can not be accounted for except by the theory of Christ's divinity. Although often tempted, He remained unconscious of sin, and was finally made perfect through His sufferings. Thus He is the incarnation of revealed religion...