Word: singularly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...conjure up a suitable plot for a story. Whether he succeeds or not is left for the reader to judge. A human being with such a prolific imagination would have the making of a Rider Haggard. The story is very brightly and interestingly told and has the merit of singular originality...
...singular, but not one of the colleges has this year produced a punter who has entitled himself to rank at all with Watkinson, Savage, Moffat Richards, Harlan, Shaw, Mason, Camp, Winton, Cutts, Watson and McNair...
...singular that we cannot prove religious facts. No great religious truths have been proved to the satisfaction of the average man. A man before he enters college is not awake to the intellectual side of life. During his college course he usually looks mainly at the intellectual side. So a man in college naturally doubts. But there are other things in life than reason. Theology and religion are very different. Theology solves the problems, but religion is for one's life, whether a man live well or ill. Then give up the insolvable problems, no one can solve them...
...Historical Study of Law's system" is the title of the second article written by Mr. A. McF. Davis. It consists of an exhaustive discussion of the facts concerning the famous Banque Generale. It seems a singular freak of Providence that Sieur Law, the son of a Scotch goldsmith, should have been the man to suggest a way to help the French government out of financial shipwreck, in the early part of the eighteenth century. Law spent the early part of his life in roaming about Europe gambling and duelling and all the time turning over in his brain scheme...
...SINGULAR. PAURAL...