Word: rife
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...race contempt of the Boers for the English is very rife. The unendurable condition of these despised Outlanders caused them to complain to the Queen, as British subjects, on the grounds that they had no share in the municipal government, no chance for naturalization, no rights for their school children, and were oppressed in every way. In the original establishment of the government, the Dutch had promised that the Boers and Outlanders should have equal rights and priviliges. This promise of course has been utterly disregarded...
...Francis was born in the town of Assisi, in Umbria, in the year 1182, in that dark period called the "century of mud and blood." It was the time of Frederic Barbarossa and the second Crusade, when discord was rife between church and state, democracy and oligarchy. St. Francis believed in carrying the maxims of the gospel into the public as well as the private life of the people, and his life was a constant example of what he thought...
...would be amusing were it not sometimes annoying to see the misconceptions which are rife in regard to Harvard. All sorts of stories find circulation and credence throughout the country, and the public seem eager to catch the first hint of any novelty, real or unreal, and to give it circulation. A case in point is the following, clipped from the Cornell...