Word: productive
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Notice has been taken of the close relation of mind or soul to body. When the body withers the mind withers. Swoon and sleeping are instances of this. Thought is the product of the brain though not in the sense that bile is the product of the liver. And here he said, "There will be much I say which cannot be demonstrated. However, I do think that thought can be proved as the product of the brain, which is the seat of thought. There are two elements-the manifoldness of the brain, and the unity of consciousness. Consciousness is always...
...mean importance in the growth of revealed religion has hardly been well understood. The Bible used to be thought of as a unity, but modern criticism has shown that it now contains several books which certainly did not originally form a part of it, but were the product of a separate school of religion with its own teachers and writers. These are the books of Job, Ecclesiastes, and Proverbs. Any intelligent reader will notice their clear cut individuality, and the absence of that overweening nationalism so apparent in the Old Testament. In them the patriot is sunk...
...since the number of persons competing for work is not changed by high protection, if high protection affects wages at all it must affect them through the amount of capital distributed in wages. (2) Yet protection diminishes the amount of capital distributed in wages for two reasons: (a) The productiveness of industry being less, the product to be divided between capital and labor is less-Wells' Practical Economics, p. 135; (b) and also the proportion in which that produced is divided is less favorable to labor. (3) Evil effect of limiting the sale of commodities to a domestic market-Wells...
...Princeton with her light runners and nimble dodgers showed to what a point the angle game might be carried. Finally Yale with a decidedly mixed team demonstrated the superiority of tieing to no one method by winning the championship by a combination of several. Harvard's style is a product of the last few years, and retains not a vestige of the game as played by the Cambridge teams in the seventies. The kicking has been forgotten or ignored and all attention centered upon the running game, the key of which is 'make a hole for a man and then...
...injuries was worthy of the closest attention, and when he turned to the judge and calmly addressed him as "my friend," only the strict decorum due the court prevented a wild outburst of enthusiasm. There was a strong array of legal talent on John's behalf, all the product of the Law School. Mr. Merriam conducted the case, assisted by Messrs. Hobbs and Hayes of the Law School, and Mr. Francis of the Boston bar. In the face of such legal lights there could be but one result, a verdict of guilty, and so the court decreed. Blake was fined...