Word: ring
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...placing the sick in the streets, so that the shadow of Peter might fall on them and heal them. The overflow from his goodness gave his mere presence the power of healing. An overflow of somewhat the same character comes from certain men or universities or towns, giving a ring to their names that puts them at once outside of the common pale. Their goodness runs out beyond themselves to everything connected with them. In the university, the whole body of students is prevaded by the spirit of the seekers for truth who are working among them, perhaps quite unknown...
...reserve of strength that astonished his hearers. But there were times when this strength broke out into holy wrath. The money-changers and dove-merchants fly before it from the temple in confusion. When it was time to denounce the scribes and Pharisees Christs's words to them fairly ring with power...
...curious fact was noticed during the Harvard-Yale game, according to a dispatch from New Haven to a New York paper: Just before Yale made her second touch down an engine on the Connecticut River road which stood on a siding near the grounds blew out an immense ring of smoke. It floated over the field a perfect O. As it sailed over the Harvard eleven Yale scored the touch down, and as McClung kicked the goal the ring gradually broke and spread into a distant Yover the Yale team...
...attention of the college authorities should be called to the fact that the college bell is not rung at one o'clock or at half past four. We do not know whether it has been customary to ring the bell in previous years at the close of the morning and afternoon sessions, but it certainly should be done now. The changes in the recitation hours necessitate it. In several of the twelve o'clock lectures the instructors keep the students until nearly a quarter after one; this makes it impossible for those who have half-past one o'clock lectures...
...these sixteen men in turn direct the politics of the shops. They thus control the local politics of Boston, and constitute an oligarchy far more dangerous to this common wealth than any man like Caesar or Napoleon ever will be. The open bar is the chief instrument of this ring in the government of Boston. If a supply of the fatal alcoholic poison must be kept somewhere, as many people assure us, let if be in miserable out-of-the-way houses on the side streets, not in attractive palaces, on the highway. Then I can feel that when...