Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ways of progress was possible, either by right reason or by revolution. The revolutionary method prevailed. The result was the immediate loss of much Anglo-Saxon blood. Again, Turgot's efforts to bring about a gradual development of political liberty in France were of no avail against the ultra-conservatives and the Revolution followed. Even in the case of our Civil War, Henry Clay and other statesmen saw it was inevitable that slavery and freedom must conflict many years before the crisis came and they sought to avoid it. But revolution sits North and South opposed them and war followed...
...free silver agitation the populist party is doing a great service to the world.- (a) It keeps the cause of international Bimetallism before the world.- (1) It corrects the ultra gold sentiment of the East...
...Others have changed a few consonantal sounds, in accordance with the usage even of the early centuries of our era, but the vowels have been preserved by them without significant change. In English, however, no sound is sufficiently preserved to be understood by an ancient Roman. It was this ultra perversion of the Roman sounds that led to the adoption of the present system. As a change was necessary there seemed no better course than to adopt the pronunciation which according to sufficient evidence was, so far as any approximation can be made to a foreign tongue, really used...
...Rights and Remedies of a Corporation or its Stockholders in respect of contracts ultra vires...
First. - The Rights and Remedies of a Corporation or its Stockholders in Respect of Contracts ultra vires...