Word: lead
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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YACHT FOR SALE.- Cutter "Cirrus." Built in 1893. Length over all 39., Line 28.5, Beam 9., Draught 7.5. Cost $3500. In perfect condition. Carries both cutter and yawl rigs which go complete with her. Will sell, all found, lead ballast...
...more right to give a place to a congressman in return for a vote than he has to give him a piano out of the public treasury. Such a policy is dangerous as well as odious. If he confines his influence on legislation to its proper sphere he can lead the people but he can never drive them. Corrupt conditions of spoils may seem for a time to cause prosperity, but the prosperity is always artificial as in the case of England when Walpole was premier...
YACHT FOR SALE.- Cutter "Cirrus." Built in 1893. Length over all 39., Line 28.5, Beam 9., Draught 7. 5. Cost $3500. In perfect condition. Carries both cutter and yawl rigs which go complete with her. Will sell, all found, lead ballast...
...interior views of economic and social problems which will be of very real use in civic and political as well as philanthropic work; in that kind of political work which the disinterested citizens of this country must more generally undertake or the country will drift into dangers which may lead to wreck. Among the things you will discover is the tremendous force of disinterested service; and the irresistible power of aroused public opinion for the accomplishment of every fort of good work. You will understand what Washington meant when he looked to that opinion, properly enlightened, to carry this nation...
...ante-bellum days when rhetorical speaking was in vogue, the polished Everett, the unflinching Summer, the persuasive Phillips were the country's leaders. Then came the change from the vehement "oratorical" style to the simple, direct and business-like speaking-a movement in which Harvard men have taken the lead: Colonel Higginson's "Hints on Speech-making" has been of inestimable service; the late Governor Greenhalge and ex-Governor Russell were among the most active exponents of the new style of speaking; President Eliot has always held it before us by his own example...