Word: main
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first main advantage to be gained by bimetallism is the establishment of an approximate par of exchange between the gold-using and the silver-using nations. The group of nations which stand midway between these two, bind them together by the so-called "bimetallic link," which is invaluable in steadying trade...
...probability, furnished the first model. Professor Moore then traced the growth of church architecture through the early Roman forms, as shown by the churches of St. Paul and St. Lorenzo at Rome, down to the Byzantine form, as shown in the church of St. Sophia, at Constantinople. The main characteristics of each type were shown by the slides and explained by the lecturer...
...main observatory was built in 1891 at Arequipa, a town about 80 miles inland and about 8000 feet above sea level. Here on a plateau about 400 feet above the town itself, a large house with a dome has been built, with laboratories connecting. Between this and the sea are two other observatories, one at Mollendo, 8 feet above the sea, the other at La Joya at an elevation of about 4000 feet...
Human character may be classed in two main phases; it is at once an effect and a cause. Looking to the past and to the future, character moulds itself partly into conservatism and partly into progress. As Emerson says, each of the two makes a good half but a poor whole. On the one hand excessive conservatism is a mere negation; on the other, excessive radicalism recklessly destroys the virtue of healthly discipline and blots out the good of the past with its bad. The one maintains established evil; the other destroys established good...
...Copeland began by stating the main facts and events of Johnson's life. Johnson, Samuel, the son of a bookseller of unusual intelligence and hypochondriac constitution, was born at Litchfield in the year 1709. From a dame school the boy went to the grammar school of the town. He left it at the age of sixteen and for two years helped his father in the bookshop. One incident of this period resulted fifty years later in Johnson's only connection with Litchfield after boyhood which the world takes note of. His father begged...