Word: savings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...avoiding plenty of chances to decorate the phrasing. "A Shell Found Inland" proved a truly poetic find for J. G. Gilkey, who would have done better, nevertheless, to tell of it in two stanzas rather than in three. The rest of the verse and all of the fiction, save for passages here and there, have already been noticed at the beginning of this review...
...prevent the dilapidation of the human countenance by age, and provide the indispensable means of chewing food. Thereby active and enjoyable life can unquestionably be prolonged. This is one of the reasons for the advancing limit of active life in the well-to-do classes. Dentistry does not often save life in dangerous crises, as surgery does, but on the whole the dentist within his range is more frequently successful than the surgeon is, and his range includes many preventions of pain, contributions to comfort and enjoyment, and prolongations of activity and usefulness...
...fact is established that whenever men as individuals are free to work, to earn, and to save and use their earnings as they deem fit, the capable everywhere tend to rise to prosperity. Skillful men are always in demand at good wages. Thus as the moral side is also developed by individualism and competition, the strongest characters are secured...
...Merrill concluded his lecture by quoting at length from a pamphlet by Hiram Maxim, the well-known authority on military aeronautics. Mr. Maxim's opinion is that the development of aerial navigation will lesson the chances of war in that nothing save subterraneous works will be free from the bombs dropped by aeroplanes...
...will be the first of the final series of games for this year; the Brown game has been moved up one week on the Harvard schedule. The University team will probably have both P. D. Smith and McKay in the line-up but, in case the coaches decide to save them, Long and Hooper will play at right half-back and left tackle respectively...