Word: sprang
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...half its former value, in the east its value remained almost constant. Oriental countries held silver as their greatest metal. This tended to discourage other nations in their trade with the orient. As a consequence, industry was very seriously affected. But in the eastern countries new industries sprang up, the foreign depreciation of silver acting as a protection to them...
...fully established Lincoln with the world. It has been said with truth that at the time of his death he was the most absolute ruler in christendom. He had ever been very near the hearts of those whom he delighted to call the plain people-from whom he sprang-and if Washington was indeed the father of his country, Lincoln was in a deeper, more sympathetic sense, the father of his people...
...occasion for some very interesting quotations from the Harvard archives. In a letter which appears, in the current number, Mr. W. G. Brown of the University Library rejects the assertion that the word "College" as applied to a single building in the early records, was a dialectal use which sprang up in America. He quotes two items from an old inventory of the college property, dated twenty years after the founding. They refer to "the old college," the predecessor of the present Harvard Hall, and to "Goffe's colledge," each of which was equipped with a hall and kitchen...
...number to less than 100. In this year district schools first put in an appearance, and helped to lessen still further the interest taken by the small towns. The district schools absorbed all the educational energy of the commonwealth. Academies supported chiefly by the state, and large private schools sprang up and flourished in the last part of the eighteenth century, and have continued with little change almost down to our own day. These schools drew their students from all parts of the state, and absorbed still more of the educational interest...
...game began at 3 o'clock with Rand at the bat, but a moment later a shower sprang up which caused a delay of ten minutes, but lessened the intense heat...