Word: decayed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Among the poor and wretched, in respectable society, in business, forces are at work about which it is not enough to say, "Touch not the unclean thing." On the contrary we must touch it, as salt touches decay, to check and overcome...
References: John Codman in North Am. Rev., Jan., 1897; House Reports, 1891-92, No. 966; 1889-90, No. 1210, Minority Report; 1887-88, No. 1871; Cong. Rec. 1890-91, p. 1044; North Am. Rev., Vol. 142, p. 478; D. A. Wells, "Decay...
...crusade of 1204 the island was sold to the Venetians, by whom it was held during the next four centuries. The Venetian rule was so oppressive that the Turks were hailed as liberators when they came and after a seige of twenty-five years conquered the island. With the decay of the Turkish empire during the 17th and 18th centuries the condition of Crete became steadily worse until at the beginning of this century the mismanagement of the Mohamedans became unbearable. The outbreak of last summer was the last of a continued series of uprisings on the part...
...seemed to be a common opinion that freshman and sophomore dinners would detract from the junior dinner and that there would not then be a very enthusiastic support of any class dinner. If this is true it is to be deplored, for it shows how great has been the decay of class spirit here. If it is not true then it would be an excellent thing to substitute a regular annual dinner for the three upper classes, for it would unite the classes as nothing else could. Last year the senior dinner was well attended and a great success...
Xenocrates and Zeno of the Eleatic School contended that all Being was one and unchangeable, and that decay was non-Being. Parmenides had a similar belief. Opposed to these ideas was the doctrine of eternal change or transition, ceaseless flux and flow. Democritus, accepting in part the doctrine of Parmenides, evolved the Atomic philosophy, which treated from a scientific point of view, still lives in the atomic theory of today...