Word: prime
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...perplexing mystery. Because of this, to defame his character is not just, since honorable motives may at all times explain his actions. He lived a hard life, - a bitter one. His mind from early manhood gave signs of darkening, and finally was clouded entirely. Yet that mind, in its prime, one of the most strikingly original the world has seen and, if not sublime, certainly never commonplace and always possessed of universal strength and untainted sincerity...
...Advocate had permanently fallen, but with the issue of today comes a promise of better things, - a promise which it is to be hoped will not prove to be delusive. It would be indeed a pity if the "old mother" should grow feeble before she fairly reaches her prime, and should forget that she had once been quite a good-looking girl...
...strongest still rules. Though the need for voices in the wilderness is ever decreasing, though all observation shows that the world is getting better day by day, yet the need exists if to a less degree than it did when Rome was in her questionable prime...
...Renan had lately died and because Renan had more influence than any other one man on French thought of today. Renan was an optimist, while the majority of the young writers and thinkers of today are pessimists of the worst sort. Renan, says Professor Sumichrast, has not been the prime cause of atheism in France, which really has been steadily diminishing in the last twenty-five years...
...prime motor, said the lecturer, is an instrument taking its energy from nature and applying it to the uses of man. All mechanical tasks are done by the overcoming of resistance; in fact the overcoming of resistance is the definition of work...