Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first number of volume fifty-one of the Advocate is not quite up to the usual standard. One of the chief faults is the predominance of tragedy; for four out of six stories are distinctly tragic, and three of these actually end in sudden death...
...that cold, wet floor while the glow of his exercise is slowly leaving him, all the time waiting for the hot water to come back again. This takes it for granted that he finally gets hot water. When, however, he does not, he has either to take a sudden plunge in the shower bath, or go without bathing, in neither case deriving the benefit of a good, warm water bath. Moreover he runs a great risk of catching cold. There is not the slightest excuse for this state of things continuing a day longer. Whoever has charge of the boilers...
...which the ingenuity of Mr. Cook excels. Instead of the eight men letting their bodies move gradually forward on the slides, allipull on their stretchers, making the first part of the slide very rapid, while they slow down just before finishing the slide, so as to avoid a sudden stop with its accompanying jar and retarding of the boat...
...members of the class of 1890, wishing to express our heartfelt sorrow at the sudden and tragic death of Edward Anson Seeley, the first of our classmates to be taken from us since graduation, pass the following resolutions...
...loan: Nation, March 12, 1891; [b] Return of tax lawfully collected tends to discredit the government: Veto message, p. 505; [c] Leads necessarily to return of other war taxes, e. g. income tax: Veto message, p. 505; Q. J. E., III, 452, 456; [d] States will be demoralized by sudden filling of their treasuries, cf. results of "deposit of 1836" : Bourne, "History of the Surplus Revenue...