Word: remarkably
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...student at the University of Texas, being short of funds, wrote to his father: "Send me $100. He who gives quickly gives double." The old gentleman replied, enclosing $50, with the remark that, as he had responded promptly, the $50 enclosed were equivalent to the desired...
...upon the results of his voyage of discovery. In physics a student may be instructed to study certain peculiar phenomena. In American history he may be permitted to devote his attention for a time to one series of events. Subjects, rather than a single text-book, are studied. The remark of Lessing, that the second year the truth is more important than the finding of the truth, is thus illustrated. The advantages of this method are great. The use of books and of authorities is taught; and, above all else, a vigorous and discriminating intellectual discipline-the supreme object...
...Biddy, did ye rade the piece in the paper this morning' about the goodies," was the remark of one of these angelic creatures to another, overheard in one of the entries yesterday forenoon...
...delight of an ordinary miser, who scrimps himself until he has impaired many of his faculties, and would likewise make the heart of a Jersey bank cashier sink within him. Take for instance the condition of the chapel on a dark day and the force of this remark will be evident to all. To make the services there as wholesome as possible the authorities seem bound to have them run on an economical manner that each morning a lesson against worldly extravagance may be inculcated in the heart of the spendthrift student. Not content with the saving of 97 cents...
Webster was only a few months in preparing for college, and during that brief period he commenced and mastered the study of Greek, so that his tutor was won't to remark that other boys required a year to accomplish the same end. Of all his father's children, Daniel was, as a boy, the sickliest and most slender, and one of his half-brothers, who was somewhat of a wag. frequently took pleasure in remarking, that "Dan was sent to school because he was not fit for anything else." Even from his boyhood he was an industrious reader...