Word: traced
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...particularly unfortunate that any combination of circumstances should have prevented Harvard and Princeton from meeting on the football field this year. So thoroughly has every trace of the unpleasantness which once existed died out in both universities that it seems that nothing but good results could have come from a game. For the past few years the football season has ended somewhat unsatisfactorily by reason of the failure of these teams to meet each other. With regard to the effect which such a contest would have upon the Yale game, the experience of a hard game should certainly strengthen...
...this suggests another point in which language is interesting. The little facts of domestic history are to be found imbedded in it, and not only so, but we may trace in it sometimes the tide lines and driftmarks of civilization. The word chimney, for example, coming into English from the Latin by the way of Italian and French, gives us good ground for suspecting that the mass of the population of Saxon England before the Norman conquest got rid of their smoke by the less ingenious outlet of door and window. In cordwainer (still the legal designation of shoemaker...
...delta of the Lena river in northern Siberia. For the last five days the journey had been made in the boat, without provisions of any kind. The bodies of the men were badly frozen. The party searched the coast about the mouth of the Lena thoroughly, but no trace of their missing comrades was found...
...Trace the influence of Puritanism on national character...
King George the Third always maintained that Shakespeare's writing was but sad stuff, and that it was only tolerated because it was Shakespeare. With this view no one can agree who reads his plays without prejudice. In them we find no trace of preaching or moralizing, but every character is allowed to speak for itself, without preference given or comment made. It is the work of a great artist, to whom life in all its manifold phases strongly appealed, and who was thus able to reproduce it with all the delightful charm of reality...