Word: tenderest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...nature of the game or to any particular fault in the rules we cannot admit. If the game were played according to the spirit and the letter of the rules there would be nothing in it to trouble the most fastidious nature or to excite the tenderest conscience. The difficulty is that umpires have often been willfully or unwilfully blind and partial. They have not fulfilled the duties imposed upon them by the rules. Even allowing for the difficulty of seeing the "slugging," if every man who had been seen "slugging" had been summarily dealt with this present outburst against...
...strange what a warm heart he had, and how he sympathized with the poor and desolate. He never had had any hardship, or any personal sorrow, yet his was the kindest heart and his the tenderest words to the sorrowful. It is the poor who mourn him most of all, and feel that only God is left for them...
Prof. Peabody spoke beautifully and earnestly of Shaw, dwelling upon his happy, manly nature which in its unassuming way was deeply religious. He read portions of a letter from Shaw's former teacher, who spoke of his pupil in the highest and tenderest terms. Dr. Brooks' prayer was thankful, sympathetic, and full of hope...