Word: finding
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...closing, he asked the next speaker on the affirmative to find some flaw in the workings of the system proposed by the negative and to show also some way in which the convertible legal tenders differ from specie, except that they are more convenient. "Unless he does this," asked Warren, "how can he prove that all the legal tender notes should be retired...
...find distinct evidence of a high civilization in Babylon as early as 3800 B. C., and by 1500 B. C. the Babylonian-Assyrian culture had spread over Western Asia to the Mediterranean. But our knowledge of that civilization, said the lecturer, has come to us during the present century, most of it indeed since 1840. The French began investigations in Assyria in 1843, the English in 1845, and a society in Philadelphia has during the past six years made some valuable discoveries. In 1842 M. Botta, French consul at Mosul, was instructed by his government to make some explorations...
...writings of various men of different nationalities on the subject. He showed the many difficulties which will beset the United States commission on account of the great differences in spelling the names of important places and rivers by various authors. All in all, he thought the commissioners would find, when they began to investigate, that they had no easy task...
...much more as the pupils are capable of learning. They are very appreciative of the efforts made by their teachers; the dozen or more Harvard students at present teaching there feel wholly repaid by the gratitude of the scholars. Any who may wish to take up this work will find it both interesting and profitable. Further information may be obtained of D. Fales, Jr., 3 Matthews Hall, Monday, Wednesday, or Friday from...
...begins to practice his profession at twenty-three gains no advantage over the man who begins active work at twenty-six. The world shuns the very young practitioner, and turns to the older man, even though he has no greater experience or skill. The young man does not find the positions open to him today that the young man of twenty years ago did. The places are now being given to older men, and the college graduate who achieves any considerable success before he is thirty years old is rare...