Word: kingdoms
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Probably the annals of debate among intelligent men will show nothing richer or fresher than this. Brothers Nichols of Harvard and Moffat of Princeton will hereafter kindly refrain from practising their deceptive arts upon the guileless batsmen. It is wrong to give them balls that they cannot knock into "kingdom come." It is shame to tease them by sending in curved spheres. In future, pitchers will deliver them straight at the bat so that nothing may baffle the aim of the batsman, who can thus convert his ash into a catapult, by whose means he may kill the pitcher...
...found that there are now over 3,000,000 scholars for both sexes in the schools for Italy. This is the ninth part of the whole population of the kingdom...
...London paper gives the following curious statement concerning the method of examination employed in the "Flowery Kingdom": It is a curious fact that of all Chinese cities, Canton, though it is within eight hours of Hong Kong, and has, of all the places in the empire, the longest known Europeans, has undergone less change than any other great centre of population in China. It remains precisely as it was hundreds of years ago, and when once the wall is passed the traveler might for all he can see, be at least a thousand miles from any Western influence. And there...
...Maudlin" choir, as the name is always pronounced in England. I never heard in the Leipsic choir any such marvelously sweet and true voices as those that compose the Oxford choir. The choir is richly endowed, and so it may draw from all the best male voices of the kingdom. However, the "foundation" created a school in which the choir boys were to be educated entirely free of expense, and the boys are all the sons of "gentlemen." The school itself has, in late years, been thrown open to "commoners," but the choir has been kept most rigidly within...
...fight very shy of tracks unsafe in construction. The accuracy of our opinions on the value of raising the corners received an ample verification last week, when we had an opportunity of testing the track at Exeter, which we unhesitatingly say is the best five-lap track in the kingdom, owing solely to the way it is raised on the outside all the way round." In our own experience we have learnt that the fastest running tracks in England are those with raised corners, and that such men as George, Snook and Cowie all prefer raised corners to level ones...