Word: moves
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...religious truths, there is no reason why he must put off, until he knows all truth, the practice of that which he already knows. he gave a vivid portrayal of the attempts of missionaries to correct the cannibals of the pacific Islands. It is men like these that move the world, and their spirit is what young men need...
...Boston Press Club won the first game from the Harvard Chess Club on the 34th move in the tournament last week. The next game will be commenced two weeks from last Friday night...
...Comets move in various orbits. They are sometimes attracted into the solar system by Jupiter, and here they are subject to disintegration, unless some impulse sends them again out of the system. Many comets have a fixed orbit and period; their orbits are very eccentric...
...planets are of small dimension relative to the great distances, and the sun preponderates. They move independent as it were, the perturbations being almost imperceptible. The ancients had a general idea of the attraction of the heavenly bodies. Their speculations about the orbils were not correct. With the revival of learning in the middle ages came a renewed attention to the investigation of astronomy. Copernicus, Tycho and Kepler were the foremost students. Copernicus renewed the rejected idea that the sun was the centre of the system of planets. Tycho, a rich nobleman in Denmark, established the first observatory. Kepler investigated...
...crew still runs down to the boat house and back, three miles, but will give up the runs in about three weeks, and move down to the boathouse...