Word: performance
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Bishop Brooks was sensitive upon any one point, it was upon other men's estimate of his executive powers. Many thought he was too good a preacher to be a good manager, but any who have observed know full well that never did a man perform more completely the routine of his office. The only trouble is that he was too faithful. He wore out, not from thinking, but from working...
...History and Theory of the Steam Engine." The lecture was illustrated by stereopticon views and drawings. The history of the steam engine was traced from the early age down to its present state of perfection. Two hundred years before Christ, a primitive steam engine was used by priests to perform miracles. It took eighteen hundred years to make any advance from this apparatus...
...Corporation cannot concur in this conclusion and is of opinion that the suppression of one of the four lectures provided for under this bequest would be a breach of trust which might amount to a renunciation of the whole trust; for refusal to perform a part of the duty imposed upon and accepted by the college might well be considered a breach of the entire trust - a material change having been made therein...
...body cannot perform work for a long continued period without food of some sort to replace the loss of substance, in membranes, tissues, etc. And as the body is at all times wasting and weakening, the matter of food supply becomes imperative. Furthermore to be assimilated into the body, the food has to undergo a great chemical change. The observation of the manner in which this change is brought about, has been, of necessity, a matter of much uncertainty, although at present we are pretty well informed as to this change...
...hardly be said to be organized until the call of States has been made. That call will be made a few days hence, and the four thousand or more bills that will then be presented will represent the bulk of the work which the present Congress will have to perform...