Word: lossing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...increased powers of the Speaker are a corrective of these evils.- (a) Power of appointing committees.- (1) Speaker as party chief.- (2) Gives policy and method to Congressional action.- (b) Recognition.- (1) Party majority can present its programme.- (c) So-called veto power.- (1) Prevents loss of time on measures obnoxious to the majority.- (d) The Speaker's power as chairman of the Committee on Rules.- (1) Prevents clashing of committees.- (2) Enables measures to be considered in the order of their importance.- (3) Fixes responsibility for legislation...
...information required for success. Lyon and Blair continued their prompt action and drove the confederates to the southwest corner ot the state. There the Southerners rallied and in the drawn battle of Wilson's Creek, Lyon was killed at the head of his troops. His death was a great loss to the cause. His coolness. skill, and precision of movement were qualities which might have placed him in the front rank of commanders...
...night-fall fighting ceased. During the night Buell's forces arrived, and Wallace, who had lost his way, also appeared. Thus re-enforced, Grant attacked vigorously next morning and drove the Confederates from the field. There was no pursuit. The loss was almost 10,000 on each side, and this terrible conflict, so unequalled in American experience, caused mutual self-respect. For the first time, the public began to realize the full meaning...
...characters which were best taken were Argan, H. Schurz '97, and Angelique, E. G. Knoblauch '96. Schurz deserves a great deal of credit. He had by far the longest part and, barring the occasional loss of his lines, his acting was most finished. As Angelique, Knoblauch was excellent throughout. His make-up was very effective and he looked his part...
Probably Princeton was never more confident of winning the annual Yale game than this year. The team, almost entirely a new and inexperienced one, had trained and practiced faithfully and developed into one of the best ever seen here. Therefore the disappointment over the loss of the game was very keenly felt; but at the same time the entire college express the highest admiration of the way the men played in the latter part of the game, and with practically the same team on the field next year, great hopes are entertained of its success. The election of captain...