Word: strongest
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...strongest point appears when I try to give him a good sound scolding. He listens for a minute while my indignation is rising and my words are growing louder; but before my wrath boils over, he floods me with such a torrent of rich brogue, which I cannot understand, that I am left completely at his mercy. The faster he talks the lower my spirits sink. Being possessed of the advantage of being able to understand what I say, while my replies to him are made without the remotest idea of what I am answering...
...this, the failure of Harvard to supply our country with prominent men is not as complete as many would have us believe. The graduates of the last twenty-five years are men who have as yet no more than entered upon that period of life when the mind is strongest, the period from forty-five to sixty; so that we are warned not to expect too much. Again, through want of perspective it is difficult to tell who are in reality prominent...
...gets hardly enough body reach forward, and when he tries for more, is inclined to "bucket.' He does not shoot his hands out and pull them in on the same level, is inclined to pull them in too low, and goes back too far. Brigham is one of the strongest men that are trying, and pulls with more fire than any other. The men need to pay especial attention to acquiring a slow and smooth recover. When the stroke is quickened, the men quicken the recover too much. They are also inclined to "jerk" at the end of the stroke...
...pursued in the late Convention of the Association. Three colleges - Cornell, Columbia, and Princeton - were represented, and the most important action taken was a resolution to row hereafter in four-oared instead of six-oared shells. The fear that this backward step would be taken was one of our strongest reasons for leaving the Association, and now we see that our apprehension was no idle fancy. We shall have next summer three separate intercollegiate contests, and every college, except Harvard and Yale, will row in four-oared boats. At the time of our fall races we said that the action...
...Sedgwick passed most of his earlier years at Lenox, in Massachusetts. He was then sent to a Swiss school, and afterwards to St. Paul's School, at Concord, New Hampshire. He had devoted himself to the profession of law, and perhaps his strongest ambition was to do well in this profession, in which some of his family had been distinguished. But it may be doubted whether, even if he had not died so young, he would have had health vigorous enough to allow of his accomplishing this or any other wish that he might have had at heart. Those...