Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...lecturer then gave an intellectual picture of the period known in Russia as "the forties." The hearth of the philosophical and literary activity of the time was the University of Moscow. In some humorous quotations from a contemporary the lecturer showed the sort of philosophical intoxication in which the younger generation of the time lived. A prominent part in this movement which prepared the literary soil from which the great Russian novelists were to arise belongs to the critic Belinsky...
...numerous counterfeiters, however, made any fair trial of the system impossible. A sort of madness fell upon people; men, women and children joined in counterfeiting, clipping, and sweating the coin. The severest punishments proved ineffective. Macaulay says that the country passed no measure of the value of commodities. Everyone suspected his neighbor of cheating...
...baseball schedule which is announced this morning promises a season of unusual interest. The games as arranged this year will give the nine the best sort of training for the more important contests, and the unusual number of the latter will be an added incentive to hard and faithful work in preparation...
...present financial difficulties may be divided into two kinds, proximate and ultimate. The only proximate remedy is to get rid of some of the excess of currency. The best way in which to accomplish this would be to destroy the treasury notes of 1890. Something of this sort is going on, in fact. The U. S. treasury has begun to accumulate these notes and to store them away in vaults If the government had had a surplus revenue in 1893 and 1895 the solution of their difficulties would have been simple enough; for, after redeeming legal tender notes they could...
...fide student, it is no objection to his eligibility to play on his college team that he has played on a professional team for money. It would be needless to point out how easily the admission of such a principle would afford a cover for corruption of the worst sort. The experience of sportsmen the world over is that the only safe rule is that which precludes the possibility of a man's engaging in athletics for pecuniary profit and still retaining his amateur standing, even though it may work hard in some cases against men who are undoubtedly sportsmen...