Word: troublous
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...Magazine has all the interest and advantage of timeliness dealing as it does, most pertinently with our immediate political situation. The note for the issue is already struck on the cover which bears an excellent print of the great steel dome, erected over the Capitol at Washington during the troublous years of the Civil...
...number is excellent, and most timely in these "troublous days," a clear call, as the vigorous editorial article, "Opportunities and Services" sets forth, to the College man to do his duty,--the duty which President Lowell so clearly and forcibly pointed out at the opening meeting of the year, to work to fit himself to serve...
...Augustus Everett Willson, Kentuckian by birth and residence. Harvard Bachelor of Arts in 1869, a trusted and respected lawyer, in politics a Republican in a Democratic State, elected governor of Kentucky in 1907 for four years, after an energetic and troublous contest, a fearless, honest and disinterested public servant...
Professor Francke divided German literature into three Epochs which group themselves about the dates 600, 1200, 1800, marking respectively the period of migration, the age of chivalry, and the troublous times of the French revolution. The migration of the Germanic tribes brought about a great increase of race feeling; and a corresponding decrease of moral sentiment; it is a time of rapid expansion, and of unscrupulous accumulation. Out of such experiences the great epic traditions of a nation were born. These epics are not left intact. The Germans in the midst of this period adopted the Christian religion, and abandoned...
...Blucher's army, much of the fervent spirit of national resistance to the domination of the French is undoubtedly to be ascribed. The favor with which gymnastics were then regarded was universal. Kings and people vied with each other in extolling their worth and importance. But in the troublous times that followed the triumpus of the battle-field they fell into disrepute, at least with the governments of Germany. Not only were the promises recalled which had been proclaimed in an hour of need, but the gymnasia throughout the country, with the exception of those of Wurtemburg, were closed...