Word: laying
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...this unfortunate arrangement is due the disastrous result of the race. Could Harvard and Yale have been separated by even a single place, it is probable a fair test of superiority might have been obtained. The four crews between whom the race really lay - Columbia, Harvard, Yale, Wesleyan - soon after the start drew ahead, and the order named was that of the first mile and a half. Harvard had been steadily drawing up on Columbia, until, at the mile and a half point, she had lapped the Columbia boat. According to the account of our crew, Yale, who had meanwhile...
Again, when he concludes that "the final classification of the motives is the classification of pleasurable and painful feeling," he misrepresents men in many of their actions. Not to value human nature too highly, we can at least lay claim to some better motives than these. We should be unwilling to believe that all actions are induced by the wish to obtain pleasure or to get rid of pain, and that a feeling of right or duty was never considered in men's actions. There is in every man's nature something which calls for higher springs of action...
...first step in real life is the foundation of his library; he collects about him works on whose authority he can rely, writers to whose judgment he can defer. His next course is to acquire a superficial knowledge of this extended encyclopaedia, so that when necessary he can lay his finger on the right volume and page, and name his authority; the larger his library grows, the greater the knowledge he has at his service. He does not store his brain with facts, he lays them aside on his shelves. Few of us are gifted with the memory...
There is not one out of five hundred of this unsophisticated population who ever calls to mind the ruinous civil war which was the occasion of this holiday. The day is to them a time for a pleasant ride or walk, flowers and peanuts. It seems rather hard to lay any part of the blame of the ill-feeling which is supposed to exist between the North and South on so innocent a holiday as this is known...
...evil of considering military men, "ipso facto, the very best for civil offices." It must be acknowledged that it takes a considerable stretch of inventive genius to discover what this and Decoration Day have to do with the writhings and groanings of the South. Perhaps the writer means to lay the blame of the present condition of the South on the Administration. It will probably survive the attack...