Word: periodicities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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During the first part of this period the production of the metals had entirely ceased, and the amount in existence gradually wasted away, the value meanwhile depending almost entirely on the relation between demand and supply...
...singularly interesting work is announced by the Cambridge University Press. It is an elaborate study of convent life and saint worship, covering the period from the beginning of Latin Monasticism to the years just preceding the Reformation. The work is called "Woman under Monasticism." Its author is Lina Eckenstein...
...unusual intelligence and hypochondriac constitution, was born at Litchfield in the year 1709. From a dame school the boy went to the grammar school of the town. He left it at the age of sixteen and for two years helped his father in the bookshop. One incident of this period resulted fifty years later in Johnson's only connection with Litchfield after boyhood which the world takes note of. His father begged him one day to go to the neighboring town of Uttoxeter to tend his bookstall. The boy refused from pride. The man, half a century afterward, found himself...
...other men have stopped rowing for a short period. Coach Watson and Captain Bullard did the coaching...
...Lathrop recommended that next year the football team play hard football only on alternate days, and that the period of practice be lengthened for the playing days, and the other afternoons be given to teaching singals and principles...