Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...called that service "a vast system of out-door relief for the British aristocracy." Indeed, it was said that "in England the opening of the civil and military service, in its influence upon the national education, was equivalent to a hundred thousand scholarships and exhibitions of the most valuable kind...
...though Cambridge no longer echoes the songs of a returning theatre-party of freshmen, the custom is still kept up by student-kind in Australia...
...specimen of a new kind of chestweight has been placed in the gymnasium. It has several advantages over those now in use. There is no wood about it, cast iron taking its place everywhere. There are two pulleys instead of one, the second one being placed on the top of the weight box. Thus the box moves only half as far at each motion, and there is no danger of its striking the top or bottom of the slide when in use. Having two pulleys and a shorter range, twice as great a weight can be used without any more...
...upon her. Its presence was first indicated this year, by the defacing of the Harvard statue and the chapel; its last exhibition has been even more foolish and dangerous. While England is being terrified by dynamite explosions, some men seized upon the idea that a little sensation of the kind would be interesting here. Accordingly, last week, a large cannon cracker was fired off at midnight in front of Matthews. As this did not produce the desired effect, another one was tied to a door knob in Thayer and went off, scorching the door, and covering the floor with burning...
...United States ; Constitutions usually know as written, because they are wholly contained in written enactments. But the current fashion of expressing, this distinction is unsatisfactory. It does not indicate the true nature of the difference. The real and essential difference is that in Constitutions of the flrst kind all laws are of equal validity. The Queen, Lords and Commons, if they agreed, might legally effect the most radical changes in our constitution. In political systems of the other type, the law of the Constitution is exalted above the ordinary legislature, which can, by itself, effect no change in it whatever...