Word: state
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Framers of Const. carefully divided the legislative branch into two bodies in order to obtain an Upper House. - (a) Differently composed from lower house; a more able and dignified body. - (b) Representing state governments a link between State and National...
...sufficient cause for a change which would - (a) Weaken union of states and national government. - (b) Give greater chance to fraud. - (1) More power to city bosses. - (c) Lower the ability of the Senate by - (1) reducing character of the senators to that of the state governors. - (2) Doing away with probability of re-election. - (3) Tend to disarrange the whole frame work of our government...
...peasantry are now in a state of transition from servitude to freedom and will not be free for twenty years. The reform was accomplished almost without a struggle; it made Russia a new country by leading to the introduction of machinery and modern improvements...
...Clemens Herschel, who lectures this evening before the Engineering Society on "Roman Aqueducts," has a wide reputation as an expert in hydraulic engineering. He is a graduate of the Scientific School, and was for some time a member of the Massachusetts State Railroad Commission. Lately he has been the chief engineer of the New Jersey Water Company, and had charge of the water supply of the city of Newark. He is now engaged in private practice in New York, and has been consulting engineer for the Niagara Falls Water Power Co. His lecture this evening will be fully illustrated...
Going back still further we notice the predecessors of Reynolds and the vicissitudes through which they must have passed. Jean Rouquet in his "State of Art in England" shows how precarious was the condition of painters in those times. No encouragement was offered by the government, while the stern doctrines of the puritans forbade the decoration of churches by religious paintings. It was portraiture that came to the rescue and stood as the medium between failure and success...