Word: gradually
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Colleges in New England, impressed with the real unity of interest and the need of mutual sympathy and help throughout the different grades of public education, invites the attention of the public to the following changes in the programme of New England Grammar Schools, which it recommends for gradual adoption...
...Loring made his first call for candidates for the sophomore crew immediately after the close of the Christmas recess, he had the satisfaction of seeing about thirty-five men respond. These were more than he could conveniently manage, and from that up to the present there has been a gradual weeding out of the bad from the good material, until now only sixteen men remain. Of these only two rowed in the freshman race at New London last spring, Thompson and Loring. Saltonstall, Williams, who was a substitute, Johnson, Bond and Waters are all in training with the 'varsity candidates...
...text, the title of an article he contributed to a recent number of the Atlantic Monthly: "A People Without Law." We are undertaking an unprecedented task, that of civilizing a nation. The Indians have lost all the civil society which they once had. The change has been gradual. We have placed over them a little despot - the Indian Agent. We depose and dispose of their chiefs as we like and we govern them without any any system of laws. We have not built upon what they had; we have destroyed it. All those best informed about the Indians say that...
...Inorganic Substances; Carbohydrates; Fats and Oils; Albuminoids; and finally Proteids. Of these foodstuffs the only absolutely essential are the Inorganic Salts and Proteids. As to the way in which these classes serve to keep the body nourished, little is known. The body seems to be the seat of a gradual grand combustion, taking place throughout its whole extent...
...answer is both yes and no. The number of French plays reproduced in England and America has indeed been prodigious, but so boldly have we copied that a mere translation or a slight recasting of the plays has been thought sufficient. The result has been plagiarism, not a gradual and subtle improvement...