Word: flushing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...this respect the President was alert as usual and seized the opportunity to talk freely about his resignation. The ever-present optimism was the keynote of his speech and we are all enlisted at his invitation in discovering the right man, a man in the very flush of the prime of life, to undertake the responsibilities which have been his for forty years. The successor will be found and it has seemed best that he be found...
...position taken by the government, presented the problem of Russian conditions from a point of view opposite to that of Aladyin and Tschaykovsky, who spoke in the Union about two weeks ago. He said that the Russian people had just awakened from a period of inertia, and a flush of activity is now passing over them: but it is difficult to find any moral or intellectual impulse in this activity. On the country, licentiousness and gambling were never more prevalent. The great cry of the people has been for more land, but it is a well-known fact, that...
...large clock, given by the class of '87, in memory of Hamilton Kuhn, has been placed over the doorway leading from the entrance hall to the Living Room. The face of the clock, which is of brass, is set in a stone casing, and the whole is flush with the wall...