Word: feudal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...feudal system of the middle ages was built entirely upon unity of family. The son never entered any other career than that which came to him by inheritance. But under our free institutions this hereditary retaining of family careers disappears and extraordinary diversity is found among the children of the same family. Some have maintained from the enormity of this diversity that there is no law of heredity, but modern natural science has shown that heredity is the cause of the diversity, in that it reproduces in the children the varying traits of many generations. Where are we to find...
...last meeting in the bomb-proof cellar of the Lampoon's feudal castle the Interpaper Pastimes Association approved Friday, June 3, as a beautiful day for the annual base-running best of the Arterial Blooders with the bowlegged Barons of Bow Street Bend. The Arterial Artists are expected to drive the Lords of Mirth from the lists, and heralds will bawl the decisions of the judges to the fractious faus roaring around the flowing flagons of fragrant nut-brown...
...study of medicine, a rapid assimilation of western education took place. The revolutionary ideas thus brought about made possible the peaceful restoration of the imperial dynasty in 1868. At that time an oath of five articles was sworn to by the emperor. As a result of this oath the feudal system was abolished. Owing to the leadership of the late Prince Ito this and the other reforms were not brought about without great difficulty. Their success can only be ascribed to the far-sightedness of the Emperor and to the great devotion of all his subjects...