Word: revolutionizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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4. The influence of Rousseau on the French Revolution.
Before that time, however, curve pitching was practiced in professional games, and, though its nature was not much understood, everybody seemed to know that a peculiar kind of ball could be delivered, and that Mathews, the present "curver" for the Athletics, was the man who was doing it. Arthur Cummings...
It is argued by the opponents of direct suffrage that history with the exception of the United States offers no example of its success with the single exception of the United States. But in the latter country it may be said that the conditions are vitally different from those of...
There is a popular superstition that college bred men are not quite up to the requirements of an active, business life; that although they may manage to learn the pursuits of peace so as to make oaws, write books and perform the duties of magistrates, they nevertheless cannot adapt themselves...
Two other ministers who also show "the vast political influence of the New England clergy in the agitations of those times" are Jonathan Mayhew and Charles Chauncey. Jonathan Mayhew was "in the pulpit, a sort of tribune of the people." Charles Chauncey was "a man of leonine heart, of strong...