Word: sawed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...immediate loss of much Anglo-Saxon blood. Again, Turgot's efforts to bring about a gradual development of political liberty in France were of no avail against the ultra-conservatives and the Revolution followed. Even in the case of our Civil War, Henry Clay and other statesmen saw it was inevitable that slavery and freedom must conflict many years before the crisis came and they sought to avoid it. But revolution sits North and South opposed them and war followed...
...Webster you will mark something little skin to the methods of today. I never had the good fortune to hear Mr. Webster. I saw him only once, but the inborn power of oratory that stood in his massive figure I could take for granted. I saw him standing on a corner and I can not remember that he was doing anything but the people in passing looked at him as if he were Bunker Hill monument...
Troubles with the Indians finally brought matters to a head. In May, 1676, they attacked the estate of Nathaniel Bacon. Being refused a royal permit the latter set out of his own accord and chastised the plunderers. When Berkeley took the field, he saw that the entire populace was aroused, and the only means of pacifying them was to call another assembly. The result was a crushing defeat of the Berkeley party and the election of Bacon to the assembly. He was arrested on his way to Jamestown, but was released on parole. Before the Assembly Bacon publicly acknowledged...
...Saturday at the Hemenway Gymnasium, Brown defeated the Providence Athletic Association in the new game of pin hockey, by a score of 41-39. Two or three hundred men saw the game...
...during the two preceding years I frequently went down to practice. I saw plenty of punting and drop kicking, but I did not see a single attempt at a place kick. This year I have not heard of any change. It seems a peculiar thing that the one goal in last year's Pennsylvania game, the only important goal we have kicked from a touchdown in three years, should have been kicked by a substitute. As I said before, I do not wish to croak, but I am beginning to tire of asking myself, "if our opponents kick their goals...