Word: nation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seeds and borne almost single-banded the burden of the botanical harvest. It would be difficult to point to any other scientific man, with the single exception of Charles Darwin, who has in his own department of learning so entirely impressed himself upon the intellectual growth of a nation. No greater void in the scientific world has been made since the death of Louis Agassiz, the naturalist...
...would compel the retention of an unwise system of taxation.- Harper's Mag., Jan., 1888, 272; N. A. Rev. 143: 398; Cleveland's Message, Boston Herald, Dec. 7; Blaine's Criticism, Herald, Dec. 8; Sherman's Speech, Herald, Jan. 5; Tariff Reform Speeches, Herald, Dec. 30; Nation...
...would perpetuate sectional hatred,-Nation, in 44: 259, 307, 479, 542. Grady's speech, Boston Globe...
...Interstate Commerce Act; (b) Blair Education Bill.- N. Y. Evening Post, reprint of editorials (pam.); Cong. Record, 47th Cong., 1st session, p. 4820. (c) Dependent Pension Bill.- Nation...
...Political and educational objections. (a) The use of violence to obtain ends instills false and dangerous ideas in the minds of the lower classes. (b) Organizations of laborers give ignorant men power which they abuse. Nation...