Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...southern states were citizens of the country no less than the sons of the north, but they saw their duty differently. Their convictions were as intense, their devotion as sincere, but their cause, as we now believe, was wrong. Soldiers of the north or of the south, they fought well on the one side or the other, and those who died never knew the issue of the conflict. It is the fidelity which impelled her sons to give their lives unselfishly for a cause that Harvard has honored in building a memorial to the soldiers of the north...
...present Japanese progress is not something extraordinary, it is the natural course of the realization of national ideals. Even as far back as the seventh century the Japanese saw the benefits that could be gained by adopting Chinese civilization. At that time the Chinese religion, governmental systems and literature were introduced in a body, and the present introduction of western civilization in the nineteenth century is well known...
...dignity of Mr. Miller's acting appeared at their best. A number of passages deserve to be called literature and they could scarcely fall into better hands for delivery than into Mr. Miller's. Such a passage is that in which the "Faith Healer" tells how he first saw the vision and heard the voice that sent him on his mission...