Word: perfectly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Education and education only can lift up the South, improve the condition of the people, and bring them in perfect harmony with the rest of the Union...
...middle-aged man, whose ruling passion is his selfish fear of death. Though in robust health, in "insultingly robust health," as one critic has said, Argan has always some imaginary ill, for which he consults quack physicians. The chief of these, M. Purgon, holds his cowardly patient in perfect subjection, threatening him with the most horrible maladies if he neglects to take the various doses prescribed...
President E. B. Andrews of Brown University, says: "For those in perfect health and trained to it, football is safer than either rowing, yachting, gunning or running hounds. Rowing appears to be many times as fatal. So is baseball. Even tennis is worse...
...beautiful day for football, and but for the strong wind blowing in the second half, it would have been a perfect day. The field was in good condition. The seats were all sold, the Pennsylvania delegation of about 800, occupying the two center sections on the east side. The visitors cheered very well, but their cheers were drowned by Harvard's. Seldom in recent years has Harvard cheered so vigorously as last Saturday, when the team played against such heavy odds...
...Christ as one who led a wonderful life and who left his impression on the world for all time; but we are apt to think of Him too much as a Master. He seems to assume the leadership over all of us, both Pharisees and multitude. He was so perfect that we are afraid of Him. When we think of His calm, sweet life, and His fearlessness of death, we regard him with a kind of superstitious veneration. When we think of the mysterious greatness of His character we feel infinitely small and insignificant...