Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...shalt not kill." Homicide is the origin of private feud. Apart from the injury done by homicide, there is the great sacramental sin which has to be purified. The only persons who can wipe out this sin are the priests--the sorcerers of religious magic. The curse was the greatest power the priest could use to persecute the criminal...
...oath was worth twice as much as a deacon's. In trials by arbitration, the judge is the mediating power. In closing, Professor Vinogradoff said that every country has been through the period of customary law, proceeding from downright struggle to compromise, and that this advance was the greatest curb...
...parts have often been sung or played in concerts. The ballet music, which consists of Moorish dances, and which is especially good, has been played by the Boston Symphony Orchestra with great success. The song sung by Azara, while waiting for her lover, is regarded as one of the greatest operatic arias...
...defeat by Japan opened the eyes of the Russian aristocracy and led them to consider the introduction of foreign governmental institutions, like those of England and France. The first Douma was the greatest concession of the government, but it was too great an opening for the peasants. The peasants had been restrained all their lives by the government, and upon receiving the opportunity of freedom, as it may be called, they carried its privileges to a great excess. Now it is the endeavor of the government to get the peasant back to his original state...
...greatest progress which has been made in New York to offset this condition has been in the destruction of dark alleys, where poor tenements containing rooms in which no light or air had access, were prevalent. In the investigations made by a committee for the purpose, 360,000 rooms were found which did not have any external openings for light or air. Now the laws forbid the erection of any structure in which there shall be a single room which does not have an external opening. Mr. Riis showed many interesting views of the poorer quarters of New York under...