Word: origination
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These three class crews owe their origin to the 12 club crews, which have been rowing on the river all fall. About ten days ago the club crews finished their season, and Coach Stevens formed the men who still wanted to row into three class crews, and these crews have been rowing daily since they were organized...
...Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes has said that "the abstraction called the Law is a magic mirror wherein we see reflected not only our own lives, but the lives of all men that have been." Judge Cardozo's little book is a felicitous contribution of general interest to the origin, nature and function of this "abstraction called the Law" which records the past and profesies what the future will be. It is written in a style which will satisfy the most exacting professional precisionist and will, at the same time, be clear to the layman and attract all who delight...
...Origin. General Booth's father, William, left the Methodist ministry in 1865 in order to succor the lost sheep of London's East End. Thirteen years later, William and his wife Catherine* whipped their missions into a military organization. Their Army grew phenomenally as it advanced from post to post. The conquest of the U. S. dated from...
...Yakuts, who inhabit the region bordering on the Lina River, are a tribe whose origin is unknown. They have lived in this vicinity for many centuries, and their primitive civilization and customs differ entirely from most of the other tribes in that neighborhood...
Another book about history is Prof. R. H. Lord's '06, on the "Origin of the War of 1870." This book presents for the first time material gathered from the archives of the German Foreign Office...