Word: warring
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Crime and Folly of War with England, Professor Charles Eliot Norton...
...over 4000 men examined who were members of various Harvard teams not over one per cent were affected with the slightest cardiac trouble. It is in those events in which there are long strains and few intervals of rest that the heart is most strained, such as tugs-of war; but in football the heart has intervals of rest and the strain is not great...
Starting from the same point of individual self-improvement, Tolstoy deprecates collectivity as injurious to self-improvement. The artist and the thinker cohabitate as rivals in his work. Tolstoy during his life has grown to his fullest fame. His "War and Peace" is accepted as a great work by all nations. The basis of his work is non-resistance to evil...
...entries have been received from the University of Pennsylvania, and the unique character of the Connecticut National Guard events heightens the interest in the games. The following events will be open only to the Connecticut National Guard: 50 yards dash, handicap; one mile relay race; boxing and tug-o-war, all to be regulated by the Connecticut National Guard. The following will be open to all amateurs: 50 yards dash, handicap; 50 yards hurdle, handicap; 880 yards run, handicap; one-mile run, handicap; putting 16-pound shot, handicap; pole vault, handicap; running high jump, handicap; and one-mile walk...
Another blow to bimetallism was the action of Germany in 1873 when, as a result of the Franco-Prussian war, the united German states demonetized silver...