Word: portion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...once for all. Nothing will more certainly in the end produce war than to invite European aggressions on American states by abject surrender of our principles. By a combination of indifference on the part of most of our people, a spirit of eager servility toward England in another smaller portion, and a base desire to avoid the slightest financial loss even at the cost of the loss of national honor by yet another portion, we may be led into a course of action which will for the moment avoid trouble by the simple process of tame submission to wrong...
...addition would undoubtedly be finished by this evening and that the date for the opening would depend on Dr. Sargent and Mr. Hemenway. Mr. Francis Dohs, the new instructor who has been engaged to help Dr. Sargent with his classes will have charge of the heavy exercises and a portion of the light...
...that everybody was most anxious as to the verdict, but early in the evening their minds were set at rest by the enthusiasm with which the audience received the performance. Not only for its enterprise does the management deserve credit, but the thanks are due of that portion of the music-loving public which has never been able to enjoy this favorite opera on account of the expense. It remained for the Castle Square Theatre to present the opera at the lowest prices ever quoted for the quality of entertainment given, and doubtless the theatre will be thronged at each...
...estimate and fathom life, we at once see some prominent qualities which all life possesses. The first is the necessity for universal labor. To every human being is allotted a certain amount of work. If one person fails to perform his share, it falls to the portion of some other man to do, in addition to his own. There are no lands or peoples free from this inexorable condition of toil...
Excursion 6.- Saturday, Nov. 9. Professor W. M. Davis. The Terminal Moraine of Southern Rhode Island. This moraine is a portion of one of the great terminal moraines that was formed near the margin of the ice-covered area of the last glacial epoch. It consists of a belt of irregular gravel hills, extending about twenty miles from near Narragansett Pier to Watch Hill, averaging a mile in breadth, and fifty to a hundred feet in local relief. On the northern side, the moraine blocks the streams that descend from the interior, thus forming lakes and swamps, whose united overflow...