Word: seeded
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There are two things to remember in considering the development of her genius. In the first place she had to suffer the contempt with which her grandmother treated her mother, who was a common work-woman. Here we see in George Sand the first seed of revolt against social institutions. Secondly, she was unhappy in her marriage and it was to plead her cause that she first became a writer...
...diamond, which was originally intended to point southwest, has been swung round on its axis, so that it now points northwest. The diamond has already been sodded and the outfield graded and sown with grass seed. The grass is already up, and in order that the field may not be spoiled it is earnestly hoped that men will not walk...
...yards handicap-Finals between Seed (Yale), Dyer (Yale), Alexander (Yale), Bigelow (Harvard), and Byers (Yale). Won by Dyer (7ft), Bigelow (scratch) second...
From the Renaissance scientific movement passes to modern times. Some quality inherant in the Teutonic race made it capable of greatly advancing scientific development. The Greek seed reaped a rich harvest. The development of science was simultaneous with the reformation. Science and religion parted in the Greek days and they have had many conflicts since. At present one can look forward to a future time when they will be reconciled from a greater conception of the infinite nature of the universe...
...children's games. Some of these have existed for many centuries in every country in Europe, and one of them may be traced as far back as the time of ancient Assyria. Many are undoubtedly survivals of ancient religious rites, such as those which celebrate the sowing of seed and the gathering in of the harvest. In this case, as often happens, children have preserved in their games ceremonies which were practiced by grown persons. Similarly other children's games are plainly survivals of practices which attended the early form of marriage by capture...