Word: movement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...instance, it is curious to notice, bore a duty of thirty per cent., showing how these vehicles were then regarded by the people. The tariff of 1816 had little popular sentiment behind it, but after this time the tariff acts were in great part the result of popular movement...
...found at the average gossipy tea drinks." And then with a grand burst of philosophical sentiment he exclaims, "And does a creating Divinity forbid his humanity's making the most of the powers he has given to it to make itself beautiful in form and happy? and movement?" No! we emphatically reply, no! A creating Divinity never forbade his humanity's making itself beautiful in form and happy, never forbade its making itself "movement...
...minutes or half an hour, gradually the action becomes tedious and painful, and sharp pains go shooting through it. This is caused by the checking of the circulation, and although the effort made is ten times that of raising a dumb-bell, still the tissue lost in the first movement is not renewed as it is in the second, and consequently not so much benefit is derived from it as from the latter. It is of prime importance to use weights proportioned to one's strength, neither too large nor too small, but of medium size...
...article in the last number of the N. Y. Clipper, in discussing the movement towards the reduction in membership of the college base-ball league, betrays such an entire misconception of the question and, indeed, of the whole spirit of college athletics, that we cannot let it pass without comment. "The proposal," says the Clipper, with an insight of which no one not thorougly imbued with the spirit of "professionalism" would be capable of displaying, "has a very suspicious taint of gate-money influences about it." Now, we beg leave to state that the argument of increased gate receipts...
...advocates of the higher education of women have now placed their movement upon Columbia College in a thoroughly practical shape. They ask not for co-education and not necessarily for the slightest association between the students now in Columbia and the young women who may wish to take advantage of its educational facilities. They merely ask that the trustees shall consider how best to open the many and great benefits of education in Columbia College to such women as may be properly qualified to receive them by admission to lectures and examinations. Practically this has already been done...