Word: mereness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...require a sustained imagination, nor broadness and sanity in point of view. We do not require that the short story writer should have a philosophy of life or be a particularly deep thinker. The novelist deals with a whole, but the short story writer with a fragment, a mere sketch...
...Peabody Museum has recently acquired about thirty interesting soapstone vessels which were collected in West Virginia by a physician interested in ethnology. Some of them are mere rudely shaped stones, and others are finished and polished dishes which give evidence of skillful workmanship. The vessels are of different shapes and sizes, the circular dishes varying from about four to twelve inches in diameter. They are believed to have been made by the Algonquin Indians, who once inhabited the country in which the soapstone quarries...
...seemingly to attain supreme success. And there is a strange sound in the word of Paul, be ye "more than conquerors." And yet in the history of the world's great battles he learns that there is, after all, something beyond conquest. A great military here is messured not merely by the completeness of his victory, but by the mercy and magnamity with which he uses it. The sublimest moment in Grant's career was not his victory over Lee, but the great-hearted sympathy for his fee which he showed afterward; there was conquest in the fearful wreck...
...class uniform when we met them in recitations or in crowded hallways, in Leavitt's or in the Oak Grove, at the base-ball games or at Yard concerts. The class would be cemented. Everyone would have a feeling that he belonged to something tangible and not to a mere string of numbers that meant nothing. No one need be ashamed to wear a cap and gown who is not ashamed of the class. On the contrary, the pride which most men have in the class, in spite of the letting down of the bars due to the elective system...
...over. Pontbicket is especially delighted over Dardard's plan for importing gloves to England, free of duty. All the left hand gloves are sent to England, all the rights to Scotland.--Refuse to pay duty at both places; the gloves are sold at auction as odd pairs for a mere tri collect the odd pairs, put them together and sell them.--This is too much for Pontbicket. A man with so much intelligence cannot help being a desirable...