Word: sword
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...said he was not there to dictate to the students; to bid them take up the sword and follow him into the fight; but simply to outline the war against evil, and to show the social principles of the Salvation Army. First he told of his own struggles, when he had taken his stand alone against the tide of poverty, disease and crime in the eastern part of London. The enterprise at first seemed to him desperate, the hope of making any head against such a sea of misery and vice was forlorn. With dauntless courage he resolved to make...
FENCING. - F. W. Lister (formerly drill master Harvard Rifle Corps, '75 to '80) will give an informal talk to the Harvard Rifles and those interested in the subject on "The sword and how to use it," at the Hemenway Gymnasium, lower floor, at 4.45 p. m. today, Wednesday...
Public speaking is sword and shield to the man who is interested in political questions and in the welfare of the country. We see its necessity in our courts of law and in our legislature. Not only this. It enters into the life of every man in so far as he moves out of his own narrow sphere. If, for example, a new car line is to be encouraged or discouraged, it is the duty of every interested man to appear before the council and present his views...
...word for it-funeral from the Norman. So also the poor man was put into a Saxon grave, and the noble into a Norman tomb. All the parts of armor, which was worn only by the nobel, have French names, while the weapons of the people, sword, bow, and the like continued Saxon. So feather is Saxon, but when it changes to a plume for the lord, or a pen for the learned it becomes foreign. Book is Saxon, but a number of books collected together, as could only be done by the wealthy, becomes a library. The weapons...
...Broad-sword.- R. B. Merriman...