Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...snap which is essential for a winning nine. The batting was weak and the base-running weaker. Almost all the runners slid bases feet first, and none of them were half quick enough. The coaching, moreover, was miserable. In the field the men interfered with each other, and the wonder was that more errors were not made. The score...
...expressed their entire confidence in the outcome of the negotiations, any alumni should have hesitated about taking any steps which might, complicate the discussion. With this proposal purporting to come from a "committee" of New York Yale and Harvard graduates, presented at their mass meeting, it is no wonder that the Yale students refused to accept the Harvard conference committee's proposition. They may well have been misled into thinking that the influence of the Harvard alumni would be used to carry the disputed points in favor of Yale, We repeat that college men and the great majority...
...wonder the word "vision" became a proverb among the Jews, Over and over again they relapsed, but there was constantly held before them by their prophets the vision of a beautiful land. Where there are no visions the people perish. It is not what a nation possesses or acquires, but it is the national idea which pervades its life. Our own country is not great by what it has, but what it dreams. It is our national ideas which keep us safe and pure...
...only about half were well contested. In the very first event the four competitors dwindled down to one. The sparring was reduced to one bout instead of four; and a large number of men who entered for the ten yards dash backed out. Under these circumstances, it is no wonder that the spectators were disappointed. Men who enter ought to feel that they have given a pledge to the spectators to contest. Some of those who attend the meetings are doubtless attracted by the expectation of a good competition in some one event. Every one is influenced toward going...
...callous to it, so used to vice that he ignores it. This kind of man may make a good historian or a good philosopher because he has a perfectly fair frame of mind. Provincial people on the other hand are unused to the jar and noise of the city, wonder at strange sights, shudder at crime and are shocked by vice. They cannot look at disturbances with equanimity and are more likely to form more intense convictions and to be moved by a sterner purpose than the careless city people. Their firmness of purpose makes them often greater and more...