Word: lose
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...genuine Christian faith is at once a vision and a venture, yet, although its visionary character leaves room for possible doubt and makes it seem perhaps fantastical, history has shown, as in the case of Rome before Christ's coming and of China today, that when men lose this visionary trust a low moral state is the inevitable result. With Christ returned the vision of God and the possiblity of redemption. Today the things that keep us most from practical faith in God are engrossing worldly occupations and unrestrained passions. There is also a danger in an ill-directed intellectual...
...Hills deserves credit for his impersonation of the irascible old M. Purgon. He seemed to lose himself completely in his part and brought down the house with his tirade upon Argan...
Rehearsal this afternoon at G. A. R. Hall at 4 sharp. Entire cast, Ballets and Final Ceremony. The entire performance will be acted from beginning to end, and men who arrive late will lose the rehearsal...
...matter, would not be desired by the students themselves. Work on college papers is usually undertaken as an agreeable diversion subordinate to the regular work of the University. It is not intended to supply deficiencies in the curriculum and, if subjected to strict oversight and compulsorily kept up, would lose half its charm...
...already planned by the football management we recommend that definite provision be made for organized cheering at the Pennsylvania game. Desultory shouting does very well in a game with weak opponents, but when the contest is a close one and it is all important that the team should not lose courage for a moment, it makes a great deal of difference, whether the cheering is strong and hearty or weak and spiritless...