Word: recording
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ready to admit that they do anything dishonorable by occasionally deceiving the office as to their whereabouts. If they did so as a regular thing, their consciences would be troubled, but for just once or twice when a cut would not appear well in their record, - why of course no one could think of a breach of honor...
...scattered hits were all that Dartmouth could make off him. The batting of the home nine was also rather weak, though what hits were made were timely ones, as is shown by the fact that all the runs were earned. Six hits, with a total of ten, is the record for the afternoon. For the most part the men could not send the ball past the infield, while if they succeeded in this they generally flied...
...money is most desirable. - (a) Silver and gold the only suitable money metals: Mill, bk. III, ch. 8. - (b) Gold is insufficient: see above I, (a) 1. - (c) Silver in relation to commodities a more stable standard than gold: Amer. Jour. Soc. Sci. XXXII, 27; Sen. Stewart in Cong. Record, XXV, App. 158-159 - (d) Silver and gold together a non-fluctuating standard: McCulloch, p. 21. - (e) Silver will eventually become standard money metal of the world. - (1) Exhaustion of gold mines. - (2) Increased use of gold in the arts: Suess, 100-101. - (f) Present suspicion of silver unjustifiable...
...alone might safely coin silver at a proper ratio: A. S. Stokes, Joint Metallism; W. C. Oates in Cong, Record XXV, App., 152-155. - (a) The proper ratio would be that which would most nearly coincide with market ratio. - (b) This ratio is ascertainable. - (c) There would be no tendency for silver to drive out gold. - (1) A silver dollar would contain a gold dollar's worth of silver. - (d) Our present silver money could be gradually recoined at new ratio; meanwhile government's fiat would maintain it at parity with gold as it does...
Above all other poetry, the Divine Comedy is the record of a lofty character and a manly earnestness of purpose. Dante did not fail in the indirect accomplishment of his attempt to lead men to righteousness. In every generation men have listened to his words and been helped by them. If we read the poem simply for the sake of the poetry, we find in it a pleasure, which only the words of the great poet can give us. The reader of the poem becomes its lover. Poetry is the garb which wisdom has chosen for itself, and the lover...