Word: powerful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...power of the free trade movement among young men is shown by the fact that Yale has graduated 916 free traders, and but 30 protectionists during the last eleven years...
...food should be well masticated, and the proportion of vegetable and animal foods eaten carefully considered. When a portion of food, or drink, saliva, or any other substance has been carried back past a certain point on the posterior part of the tongue, it is completely out of our power to resist swallowing. After leaving the mouth the food passes through the oesophagus to the stomach, which is a hollow muscular organ, and provided with a number of glands which produce the gastric juice. The muscles of the stomach are described as consisting of three layers. At the lower opening...
...short story, then, is often one of the best contributions to a college paper. But we should leave the misery and wretchedness, the supernatural and sombre, which we have not yet the power to describe, to those who have tasted bitterness and sorrow. And let us have more that is healthful and honest, told with simplicity and directness...
...elegance, its pungency, its accuracy. Yes, slang is prevalent at Harvard. It is in the class-room, the dormitory, on the field. You hear it on the river; in the gymnasium, - everywhere. But its use has such proportions that comment upon it is unexpected, and for any human power to abolish it is impossible...
...labor, on which the optimists dwell, come to pass. Legislation may do much to help in industrial crises. As witnesses of this, the good effect of the establishment of coffee houses, savings banks, etc., on the continent is cited. Labor has learned in this country to know its power, and how by holding the balance of power politically it may accomplish its end. The leaders of labor associations desire to use their political power to further their economic ends. But the danger lies in their dense ignorance of the laws of political economy and of kindred sciences. That this ignorance...