Word: felling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...other of these modes gave to either one or other of the notes A C D E F or G (modes in B being unused) the place of tonic note. In the Harmonic style which at the Reformation succeeded Polyphony the modes of E F and G fell out of use. The mode of C became the modern major scale; and those in A and D united to form the modern minor. In this process of development the diatonic scale itself become modified for reasons which will be referred to in the lecture on Harmony...
...thought to be miracles. They used to be preserved and worshipped; and Livy tells us that about 652, B. C., the Senate decreed nine days' solemn festival on account of a shower of stones on the Alban Mount. There is a meteoric stone in the British Museum which fell in Japan 150 years ago, and which has since been preserved in a temple as a relic...
...just as proper to speak of the word of the Lord as coming from Agassiz and Huxley as from Moses and Isaiah. When the great light of modern science came upon the world many were weak enough to think that the old revelations were thrown into discredit; they fell down on their faces instead of remembering the exhortation of the prophet to stand on their feet and face the glory of the Lord. The revelations of today do not controvert, they add to and ennoble the grand discoveries of the past...
With the ball at the Harvard 45 yard line McCormick gained 5 yards but Jenkins lost ten by a bad pass and Bliss fell on the ball. Bliss then made a pretty run around Wrenn's end for 15 yards. McCormick lost three yards by Waters' good tackle. Bliss then tried for a goal from the field, but the ball hit a Harvard man and bounded around a good deal until a Yale man dropped on it at the Harvard 15 yard line. Good tackling by Newell and Shea and steady blocking in the centre prevented Yale from gaining...
...Shea tackled well and Harvard got the ball on four downs. Yale got it again for holding. Noyes punted to Corbett who returned it with a tremendous kick. Noyes returned but Harvard gained 30 yards by the exchange. Soon after Corbett punted again. Bliss muffed the ball and Waters fell on it at the Yale 12 yard line, Gage gained 5 yards and Harvard got 5 more for off-side play. Corbett jumped across the remaining two yards and scored a touch-down...