Word: safest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Oxnard spoke next for the negative. When we make a law a part of our national constitution it becomes solidified there, and is not easily ejected. This question of divorce is one of the experimented sciences, and the safest place for its laws at present is in the state government, which is more easily changed. There is an advantage in state divorce laws, which is that each state sees, and avoids the errors of other state laws, and in this way, aids in obtaining perfectness...
...years ago that the survival of the fittest did not explain that inscrutable something which causes the fittest to appear. We are all here to demand loyalty to the self-evident truths on which science rests. The unsearchable wisdom of God in the source of all forms. It is safest for you to look to Germany and Scotland for fundamental philosophical truths. England is a pigmy compared with Scotland and Germany on these truths. I advise you, kneeling on Asa Gray's grave, to repeat his creed word for word, namely the Nicene creed...
...critic observation of the game the author in justice upholds and defends the sport with the remark that 'with good physical condition in the players, the requisite training and suitable grounds, the game is not only one of the best of out door sports, but one of the safest.' As regards the tendency to degenerate into personal combat, 'the writer's observation has led him to believe that, in nine cases out of ten, a general tendency to indulge in striking with the fist is the result of conscious inferiority.' Any one who has watched the game will fully coincide...
...danger of following them in scientific research is that the student will leave the really important things that are at his door unexamined, while he follows out a theory that fletters his vanity and gives unbounded sway to his imagination and to his ingenuity. The safest method therefore is to base our observations and draw our conclusions from the actual historical facts at our disposal...
...very profound wrath, it does become irritating when repeated each summer. But perhaps these are the perquisites of the carpet-layer, or of that strange boy whom no one knows and yet who manages to prove himself so much at home in the college rooms during the summer. The safest course after all is to strip the room for the summer, or give your worldly possessions there contained to the janitor...