Word: network
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that both soldiers and officers have among them the most cultured Germans. During the last twenty-five years all the German cities have made great improvements. Large buildings have been erected; the population has increased to a great extent. Wages have doubled and beggary has disappeared. A huge network of railroads covers Germany and has caused an enormous increase of commerce. In literature a great improvement has taken place. Schools, universities, polytechnics have all increased in number of attendants, and many good works have been published. This resuscitation of Germany has caused her neighbors to try to rival...
...wire netting, which extends the whole length of the building, completely protects the windows and rafters, and prevents the sudden rebounding of batted balls, while the entire sides and one end are protected by cord netting. Thus the whole interior of the cage is inclosed in a firm network which prevents in jury to the building and insures to the players perfect freedom from the danger of hard rebounding or glancing balls. By a system of pulleys one of the nets can be moved inward a distance of eight feet from the side and held in that position. This divides...
...moments and seasons in which we feel very wretched and guilty. There is an anarchy in our souls which seems somehow to accuse us of treason and rebellion. But what does all this become in the scheme of fatalism? A delusion, a disease. Guilt cannot slip in through the network of necessary causation. If my ancestors were vicious, if my bringing up was bad, if my temptations were strong, why should I up-braid myself? Yet how am I to account for this consciousness of sin, which is wholly different from the consciousness of folly or misfortune? I may have...