Word: sunlight
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...interference stop there. After all, the object is to see which team can play the better and steadier game, and any practices which prevent a team from playing its best (beyond the practices of legitimate rattling) are distinctly to be discouraged. Using mirrors to throw the sunlight into the players' eyes, a practice which was fortunately stopped after the first few innings, is going decidedly too far. The teams, we repeat, should not be physically prevented from playing their best...
...lecturer showed how leaves are fitted in position and structure, to get all the sunlight possible, and how, from this example, the adaptability of means to ends is carried out in nature. This general principle can be impressed on young pupils by illustrations just such as this, where enough is suggested to them, to enable them to infer truths for themselves. Teachers should take extreme care, and not try to make the young pupils study details...
...however suggest to them or the proper officials that plain glass would be a great step in advance. If sunlight would be troublesome, clear glass could at least be put on the east side...
...infinite Reason are the most familiar parts of human existence. There is little need of presenting any of these pictures, and yet their very familiarity makes them often unimpressive and obscures much of their splendor. The night, with its stars moving with in evitable accuracy or a day of sunlight or one of clouds and wind are too common, not for a man who has opened his eyes to the infinite System, but for one who takes it as a matter of course. In sum, a true lover of nature becomes in some degree a lover...
...Museum Company has shelved "Sunlight and Shadow" as a failure and they now present a farce with a curtain raiser. "New Lamps for Old," with the comedietta "The Open Gate" will be the bill at the little theatre for for some weeks...