Word: quickening
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Peyton, No. 6, is also a powerful oar, but is apt to quicken on the stroke and in this way fails to steady his crew...
...Holy Land this evening Professor Lyon will show how rich the Semitic Museum is in objects illustrating Palestine and the Bible. The Museum is much visited by teachers with their classes. Such visits give a sense of reality to the Biblical narratives and thus deepen one's knowledge and quicken his interest in matters oriental...
...Sanders Theatre. The audience though large showed an almost ludicrous want of humor, preferring to read sentiment and pathos into Mr. Hawkins's selections, rather than to laugh at the delicate and delightful wit which makes them so charming. Even two selections from the "Dolly Dialogues" did not quicken the audience entirely. This was the more strange considering that Mr. Hawkins read well and that all but one of his selections were humorous. They were as follows: 1. The Philosopher in the Apple Orchard; 2. From the Prisoner of Zenda, "If Love were All." 3. From the Heart of Princess...
...influence came to be called transcendentalists. Among their number are classed men of all ages and all beliefs; Emerson, Jones Very, Thomas a Kempis. The mystic is never the worker, the philanthrophist, the thinker. For active life man must leave mysticism behind him. But to awaken ennobling emotions, to quicken deep and true feelings, one should turn often to the literature of mysticism...
...force for some time, in all probability. It is hoped that some way may be found whereby tank work may be made more nearly like open-water rowing, and a second plan has been proposed, it being the placing of propellor wheels on each side of the boat to quicken the circulation of the water. The first crew usually rows with this makeup: Stroke, Langford, Patterson, Longacre, Bailey, Rodgers, Marsh, Brown and Whitney...