Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...formed to maintain a ratio might be broken by war. Can our opponents stand sponsors for the peace of Europe? Such a danger as this, when at best the advantages of bimetallism are problematical, make it clear that our present evils must be very great to justify such a leap in the dark. But that no such evils exist is proved by the immense economic prosperity of the past thirty years and what business troubles there are have been in no way due to the currency...
...faith beforehand in an uncertified result is often the only thing that makes the result come true. Believe that you can make a dangerous leap, and your feet are nerved to the accomplishment; but mistrust yourself and you are lost. Refuse to believe and you shall indeed be right, for you shall irretrievably perish. But believe, and again you shall be right, for you shall save yourself. This is why life depends on the liver. Life is worth living, since it is what we make it. Pessimism, completed by your act, is true beyond a doubt, so far as your...
...Last Leap," Frederick A. Laws. College Kodaks...
...this is how she answered: "It is very difficult for me to decide, but I will tell you how they both affect me. In the balcony scene, when Garrick is making love as Romeo, he is so eager and ardent that I am afraid every moment that he will leap and jump up to me. When I act with Barrie he is so fascinating that I am afraid every moment that I will jump down from the balcony...
...Keogh's pictorial production of the realistic sensational and comic drama, "On the Bowery," by R. N. Stephens, presenting with kaleidoscopic diversity and photographic accuracy the most typical and amusing scenes and characters of the unique thoroughfare on the east side of New York, and showing the wonderfully thrilling leap of Steve Brodie, the king of the Bowery, the helper of the distressed, the benefactor of the poor, from Brooklyn bridge. Other scenic views are the Bowery at night, pier 13 East River, with burning ware house, Chatham Square by moonlight, the rich man's residence uptown, the river under...