Word: underlay
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Frenchman has said that cookery was the test of civilization, we are more commonly apt to gauge it by the value set upon works whose only apology for being is their beauty. If we compare the spirit which led to the Great Exhibition of 1851, with that which underlay the first crusade we can hardly hesitate as to which was the nobler and most inspiring. And it was curious to see at the time the Atlantic cable was laid how much more the political and moral significance of the achievement was dwelt on than the commercial...
...excel in vigor and energy, and they pray to be like one whom they think of as all gentleness. This state of things is palpably wrong, but it results merely from a mistake. The whole remedy lies simply in realizing that the greatest strength the world ever saw underlay the grace of Christ's soul. None but a gigantic power could have started the viorations that have thrilled the world for so many centuries. All through the Gospels this strength shines out again and again. The power is vast through His long temptation and in His ministry, carried on without...
...Harvard men have worked hard; and they deserve in return the thanks of the college. An annual Interscholastic Tennis Tournament like the one today is bound to develop to a remarkable extent the material in the preparatory schools. It is a continuation of work upon the same principle which underlay the establishment by Harvard men of an Interscholastic Athletic Association. The benefit to Harvard athletics is incalculable. It is shown plainly already; it must show still clearer as the succeeding classes enter Harvard...