Word: flows
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...claims to suzerainty. If Great Britain had thrown aside these claims she would have come to peaceable conclusions. Gold was discovered and the land formerly belonging to the government was acquired by the Uitlanders on the understanding that the government was to receive royalties on it. The continual flow of capital into the Transvaal gives proof that the mining interests were not injured by the government. A counterpetition, signed by more men than had signed the petition to the Queen, declared that the signers were satisfied with the condition of affairs in the Transvaal. Finally, a peaceable solution would have...
There is, of course, the usual short funny story; but it is of general rather than local interest. The customary specimen lecture is "drool"; the one editorial contained in the number is a mere flow of adjectives and adverbs...
...cover altogether too much ground. Aside from this, the most noticeable fault was a general crudeness in form. Very few men spoke directly and forcibly at their audience and many had bad mannerisms. It should be said, however, that the men had in general a good flow of language and spoke entirely without notes...
...forthcoming number of the Advocate contains a large variety of on the whole interesting matter. Decidedly the best things in the number are "Roundeles upon Occasions," which have a good deal of imagination and flow, by Robert J. Collier; and "The Special Officer of Station Two," by G. H. Scull. Several shorter bits of verse are rather commonplace and insignificant. "The Teller of Tales," by R. T. Fisher begins very well but leads up to nothing and falls flat. The remaining articles are: Editorials, "Come and Gone," "Sympathy," by F. K. Knowles; College Kodaks, "My Neighbor," by H. M. Adams...
...Jefferson Physical Laboratory, has recently made several important discoveries in electricity. He has found that just ten thousand volts are necessary to produce the so-called X-rays. His discoveries have broken up the old theory that the carbons in an are light must be united to start the flow of light; it seems that, as a matter of fact, the first spark overcomes the atmospheric resistance and the column of air thus heated conducts the following stream of light...