Word: powerful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Farnham's eleventh lecture was delivered last evening. The lecturer said that consumption attacked some races more than others. The Irish and Germans were particularly subject to its unconquerable power. All people are aroused when cholera or small-pox is prevalent, and yet they take but few precautions against the greater evil of consumption. Alcohol, syphilis, want of pure air and good food are all productive of this terrible disease. Inherited consumption can often be cured by proper habits and regulations of life. When anyone is told to take fresh air for his consumptive troubles, he ought to keep...
...increasing dignity and worth, the difficulty of success has also increased. Not every one can now make a living, much less a name, as an M. D., and the able doctor of forty or fifty years ago would be unable to compete with the doctor of to-day. Mental power and scholarly attainment, while they are demanded more and more in all professions, seem to be especially demanded nowadays in the profession of medicine. Would-be doctors may well attend the lecture to-night, and may expect to hear something worth hearing from one who has had the experience...
...France in 1798? 21. Ought the United States to have gone to war in 1812? 22. Did Clay make a corrupt bargain with Adams in 1824-25? 23. Was the compromise of 1850 necessary for the salvation of the Union? 24. Has the House of Representatives the full power intended by the Constitution over revenue bills? 25. Is the existence of parties necessary to good government? 26. Was it right for the voters of Middlesex to stand by Wilkes...
...outside shoulder come forward. No. 7 starts fairly quickly, but he does not keep his slide under control and rushes down. He makes a break in the middle of his stroke after his legs are straight and before he pulls his hands in, so that there is no power in the middle of his stroke. No. 6 is slow in starting for ward. he lets his legs wobble, and does not sit up to his work. He hurries his finish. No. 5 lets his shoulders fly up when he rows them back. He swings back too far and keeps...
...minister." In regard to the alleged lack of enthusiasm at Harvard, intelligence and enthusiasm do not advance together. Intelligence is climbing a hill here at Cambridge, and has not breath enough to show its enthusiasm by shouting aloud. The enthusiasm will come later. With the power on one hand and the work on the other, let every man do what he can for this poor starved human life...