Word: gradually
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...reduction is to be made, it should be more gradual than from ten to eight hours, because:- (a) greater chance of success:- (b) Less disturbance to industry and trade:- (c)-Less tendency in working classes to abuse leisure gained by degees: Atlantic...
...Department of Economics, in charge of Professor H. C. Adams, Ph. D., of the University of Michigan. Professor Adams will deliver eighteen lectures on the History of Industrial Society in England and America, beginning with the Middle Ages and tracing genetically the gradual rise of those conditions in the labor world which cause so much anxiety and discussion today...
That such a team is now an impossibility at Harvard is an utterly false idea. As the records show, Harvard won the tug-of-war for many years in succession. What caused the loss of the event to us has been a gradual decline in interest, owing to the growing feeling against the sport. It is only necessary to renew this interest to gain our former prowess. It is very true that at present, after a year with no University tug-of-war team, the outlook is not encouraging. In our numbers, however, we have a great advantage. Hard work...
...other god but theirs necessary for the world. Yet they do not seem in the beginning to have questioned that the god of the Ammonites ruled in his own territory, and whenever occasion offered they themselves fell to worshiping the deities of the neighboring peoples. It is only by gradual evolution that the Israelites became monotheists, and we are driven in the last resort to account for their final worship of one god by an innate race tendency of which we can give no account...
After a short account of the game, the writer passes next to the state of affairs at Yale and the progress made during the fall there. The first games, against Wesleyan and the Crescents, has been discouraging but gradual and steady progress culminated in victory over Princeton in the championship game on Thanksgiving...