Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...well-known teacher and writer, has a wonderful personal influence. The mere sight of him seems to make a man half afraid but at the same time better. This latent power for good that seems to be in some men is almost entirely unconscious. A light and strength is shed from them continually and is the overflow of their own full store. That this is unconscious is almost an indispensable condition, since self-consciousness only acts as a check on power, and clouds the brightness that might be shining if this were resolutely conquered...
...only verse of the number is a sonnet entitled "Twilight." Although it is has been the theme of a few poems during the past ten centuries, yet it is always pleasant to see new political light shed upon the darkness of the subject. There is a touch of originality here and there, the principal simile is felicitious and the diction is the whole, good - although we doubt whether birds sing "songs of jest...
...cited several passages from Carl Schurz's report on the situation of the South, at the time of the reconstruction. The people of the North were in no mood for trifling and were resolved that there should be some reparation on the part of the South for the blood-shed and money spent. Garfield's speech delivered in congress in 1866 in which he advocated the clearing away the "rubbish" of the South and build up the country on a firm foundation voiced the sentiments of the majority of the Northerners...