Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will send in their lists at once. It certainly will not entail any great amount of trouble on any one but ourselves, and the result may prove of considerable interest. Once more, we wish to say that all lists must reach us by tomorrow night, so that we can forward them to New York...
...would be saved to the Union. Moreover, from Chattanooga railways led either north and east to Lynchburg and Richmond in Virginia, or southeasterly to Atlanta. By following either of these routes the Union generals hoped to break up the Confederacy at a single blow. After much delay Rosecrans moved forward and compelled Bragg who was blocking the road and passes to Chattanooga to retire into that city. Rosecrans advanced still farther and by skillful manoeuvering which deceived Bragg placed that general in such a position that he had no alternative but to retreat at once or undergo a blockade...
...present it seems to me that those who are for giving to natural knowledge, as they call it, the chief place in the education of the majority of mankind, leave one important thing out of their account-the constitution of human nature. But I put this forward on the strength of some facts not at all recondite, very far from it, facts capable of being stated in the simplest possible fashion, and to which, if I so state them, the man of science will, I am sure, be willing to allow their due weight...
...naturally follow to a large degree the same line of thought as a journalist. It is only of late years that political economy or even the literature of our own language have taken their present prominence, and so it is with a good deal of hope that we look forward in expectation of seeing in the near future the fulfillment of this scheme of the quasi legending "Western editor...
...officers of the athletic association are to be praised for their management of the meeting last Saturday, in one thing there seemed to be a want of care for the interests of the spectators. While the tug-of-war was being pulled, those looking on were permitted to crowd forward and stand within a short distance of the cleats in such a way that only those in the front row could see a single member of the competing teams. Last winter the officers of the meeting requested every one to remain seated, and the result was that the spectators...